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title: Islands often had giants that no one else had: Haast's eagle hunting… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Islands often had giants that no one else had: Haast's eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, giant lemurs and elephant birds in Madagascar. Who acts: Islands, one. 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
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# Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 2

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Islands often had giants that no one else had: Haast's eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, giant lemurs and elephant birds in Madagascar.

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**Who acts:** Islands, one · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** giants

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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 (Islands, one), 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:2
# text = Islands often had giants that no one else had: Haast's eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, giant lemurs and elephant birds in Madagascar.
# 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	Islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Haast	Haast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	moa	moa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NN:Number=Sing
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | past | Islands | giants |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | no one | giants |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |

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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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**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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