Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 4

In New Zealand the moas and the giant Haast's eagle that hunted them were gone within about 200 years after people arrived, a warning of how fast giants can vanish.

Who acts: eagle, moas, people, giants · What happens: hunt, be, arrive, vanish · To what, where: moas, New Zealand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 (eagle, moas, people, giants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Zealand	case
2	New	New	PROPN	_	3 Zealand	flat
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 gone	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moas	det
5	moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eagle	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Haast	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Haast	amod
9	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 eagle	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Haast	case
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moas	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hunted	nsubj
13	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eagle	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hunted	obj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	within	within	ADP	_	20 years	case
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 200	advmod
19	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 years	nummod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gone	obl
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	23 arrived	mark
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 arrived	nsubj
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arrived	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 warning	det
26	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 vanish	mark
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 fast	advmod
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 vanish	advmod
30	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 vanish	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 vanish	aux
32	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 warning	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	the giant Haast's eagle	moas = moa				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	the moas and the giant Haast's eagle		New Zealand	year	gone property	tree rules
3	arrive	past	people					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	vanish	can	giants				fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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