--- title: Island giants often had no fear of people, and hunting, new animals… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: Island giants often had no fear of people, and hunting, new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests hit them all together. Who acts: Island giants, hunting. 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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 17 Island giants often had no fear of people, and hunting, new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests hit them all together. **Who acts:** Island giants, hunting · **What happens:** have, cut, hit, fear · **To what, where:** fear, giants, people 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 (Island giants, hunting), 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:17 # text = Island giants often had no fear of people, and hunting, new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests hit them all together. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Island Island PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 22 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Island giants | no fear of people | | | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | | 2 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hit** | past | hunting and new animals like rats and dogs and cut forests | giants *= giant* | | | | together *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 4 | **fear** | | | people | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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