Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 6

Moas were giant plant-eating birds of New Zealand, up to about 3.6 metres tall with the neck up; the Haast's eagle, the biggest eagle ever, hunted them.

Who acts: Moas, eagle · What happens: eat, be, hunt · To what, where: giant eating birds, moas

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 (Moas, eagle), 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	Moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 birds	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 birds	cop
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
4	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 plant	punct
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Zealand	case
9	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Zealand	amod
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 birds	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 metres	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	15 3.6	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 up	fixed
14	about	about	ADV	_	15 3.6	advmod
15	3.6	3.6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	16 metres	nummod
16	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tall	obl
17	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 neck	det
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tall	obl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 neck	compound:prt
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 eagle	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Haast	det
24	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 eagle	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Haast	case
26	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hunted	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eagle	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 eagle	det
29	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 eagle	amod
30	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 eagle	appos
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 eagle	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hunted	punct
33	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 birds	parataxis
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 hunted	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 birds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Moas	giant eating birds	of New Zealand	tree rules
3	hunt	past	the Haast's eagle	moas = moa		vn hunt-35.1 «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, 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:6.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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