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A sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds/) / 10 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 10 Haast's eagle of New Zealand was the biggest eagle known; it hunted moa, giant flightless birds much heavier than itself, with claws as big as a tiger's. **Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** be, know, hunt · **To what, where:** biggest eagle, moa This is a sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:10 # text = Haast's eagle of New Zealand was the biggest eagle known; it hunted moa, giant flightless birds much heavier than itself, with claws as big as a tiger's. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1 1 Haast Haast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 moa moa NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 flightless flightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 acl _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 as as ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 29 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Haast's eagle of New Zealand | the biggest eagle | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | the biggest eagle *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hunt** | past | eagle | moa | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:10`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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