--- title: Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 near islands in the far north Pa… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 near islands in the far north Pacific, was up to about eight metres long and ate kelp. 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 with its dependenc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 7 Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 near islands in the far north Pacific, was up to about eight metres long and ate kelp. **What happens:** find, be, eat · **To what, where:** sea cow, 1741, kelp 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: 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:7 # text = Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 near islands in the far north Pacific, was up to about eight metres long and ate kelp. # 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 Steller Steller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1741 1741 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 near near ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 14 north north ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 18 up up ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 kelp kelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · passive | | Steller's sea cow | | 1741 | | near islands in the north Pacific | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | to eight metres; long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | past | | kelp | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kelp=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:7`. **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. 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