--- title: Moa had three forward toes and a small back toe, while an ostrich ha… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: Moa had three forward toes and a small back toe, while an ostrich has only two toes on each foot, the fewest of any bird. Who acts: Moa, ostrich. 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 sc --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 16 Moa had three forward toes and a small back toe, while an ostrich has only two toes on each foot, the fewest of any bird. **Who acts:** Moa, ostrich · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** three forward toes, two toes, foot 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 (Moa, ostrich), 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:16 # text = Moa had three forward toes and a small back toe, while an ostrich has only two toes on each foot, the fewest of any bird. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Moa moa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 forward forward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fewest few ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Moa | three forward toes and a small back toe | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | a ostrich | two toes | | each foot | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient | 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:16`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. 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