--- title: People saw these giants with their own eyes, and some old stories, l… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: People saw these giants with their own eyes, and some old stories, like the Māori stories of a huge bird called Pouakai, may remember them. Who acts: People, old stories. A sentence of the lesson «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» of the biology co --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 5 People saw these giants with their own eyes, and some old stories, like the Māori stories of a huge bird called Pouakai, may remember them. **Who acts:** People, old stories · **What happens:** see, call, remember · **To what, where:** giants, huge bird, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (People, old stories), 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:5 # text = People saw these giants with their own eyes, and some old stories, like the Māori stories of a huge bird called Pouakai, may remember them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Māori Māori PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 Pouakai Pouakai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | People | this giants | | | | with people's own eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | | 2 | **call** | participle | | a huge bird *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **remember** | may | some old stories like the Māori stories of a huge bird | people | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:5`. **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, R7-rel-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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