--- title: They were big and slow, had few babies, and could not recover when p… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: They were big and slow, had few babies, and could not recover when people hunted them, brought rats and dogs and cut the forests. Who acts: islands, people. 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 --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 4 They were big and slow, had few babies, and could not recover when people hunted them, brought rats and dogs and cut the forests. **Who acts:** islands, people · **What happens:** be, have, not recover, hunt, bring, cut · **To what, where:** few babies, islands, rats, forests 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, people), 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:4 # text = They were big and slow, had few babies, and could not recover when people hunted them, brought rats and dogs and cut the forests. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 recover recover VERB VB _ 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VB _ 14 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | islands *= island* | | | | | big *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | islands *= island* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | islands *= island* *not said here* | few babies | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 4 | **not** **recover** | could | islands *= island* *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hunt** | past | people | islands *= island* | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | past | people *not said here* | rats and dogs | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | | 7 | **cut** | infinitive | islands *= island* *not said here* | the forests | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forest=Product | 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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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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