--- title: One elephant bird egg could hold about as much as 150 chicken eggs,… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: One elephant bird egg could hold about as much as 150 chicken eggs, and pieces of its thick shell are still found on beaches and dunes. Who acts: One bird egg. 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 Mov --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 15 One elephant bird egg could hold about as much as 150 chicken eggs, and pieces of its thick shell are still found on beaches and dunes. **Who acts:** One bird egg · **What happens:** hold, find · **To what, where:** much, pieces, beaches 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 (One bird egg), 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:15 # text = One elephant bird egg could hold about as much as 150 chicken eggs, and pieces of its thick shell are still found on beaches and dunes. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obj _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 chicken chicken NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 16 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 dunes dune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | could | One bird egg | much | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 2 | **find** | present · passive | | pieces of egg's thick shell | | beaches and dunes | still | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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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