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title: Haast's eagle died out about 600 years ago, soon after people hunted… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haast's eagle died out about 600 years ago, soon after people hunted the moa away. Who acts: eagle, people. 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 with its dependency tree and the 
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# Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 11

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Haast's eagle died out about 600 years ago, soon after people hunted the moa away.

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**Who acts:** eagle, people · **What happens:** die out, hunt away · **To what, where:** moa

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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, people), 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:11
# text = Haast's eagle died out about 600 years ago, soon after people hunted the moa away.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moa	moa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | Haast's eagle |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **hunt away** | past | people | the moa |  |  |  | away, soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=Theme |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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