--- title: Elephant birds of Madagascar were taller than a grown-up, much heavi… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephant birds of Madagascar were taller than a grown-up, much heavier than an ostrich, could not fly and died out roughly a thousand years ago. Who acts: Elephant birds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Elephant birds), 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:14 # text = Elephant birds of Madagascar were taller than a grown-up, much heavier than an ostrich, could not fly and died out roughly a thousand years ago. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Madagascar madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 7 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 9 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 ago ago ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | past | Elephant birds of Madagascar | | | | | tall *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | | Elephant birds of Madagascar *not said here* | | | | | than a ostrich | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **fly** | could | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **die out** | past | | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:14`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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. 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