--- title: The sea cow could not dive deep and was too slow to escape, and hunt… — Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's ea… · tree and pragmatics description: The sea cow could not dive deep and was too slow to escape, and hunters killed them all within about 27 years. Who acts: sea cow, hunters. 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 wi --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 8 The sea cow could not dive deep and was too slow to escape, and hunters killed them all within about 27 years. **Who acts:** sea cow, hunters · **What happens:** not dive, be, escape, kill · **To what, where:** cows 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 (sea cow, hunters), 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:8 # text = The sea cow could not dive deep and was too slow to escape, and hunters killed them all within about 27 years. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 dive dive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 deep deep ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 too too ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 slow slow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 within within ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 27 27 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **not** **dive** | could | the sea cow | | | | | deep *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **is** | past | the sea cow *not said here* | | | | | slow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the sea cow *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kill** | past | hunters | cows *= cow* | | | year | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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:8`. **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): 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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