Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants, sentence 8

The elephant bird of Madagascar laid eggs bigger than about 150 hen's eggs together and was one of the heaviest birds ever; it died out about 1,000 years ago.

Who acts: elephant bird, eagle · What happens: lay, be, die out · To what, where: eggs, one

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 (elephant bird, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bird	compound
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Madagascar	case
5	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bird	nmod
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obj
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 eggs	amod
9	than	than	ADP	_	14 eggs	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 150	advmod
11	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 eggs	nummod
12	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eggs	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 hen	case
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bigger	obl
15	together	together	ADV	_	6 laid	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 one	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 laid	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 birds	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 birds	det
21	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 birds	amod
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 birds	advmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 died	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 died	nsubj
26	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	parataxis
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 died	compound:prt
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 1,000	advmod
29	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 years	nummod
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ago	obl:unmarked
31	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 died	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the elephant bird of Madagascar	eggs	together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	is a	past	the elephant bird of Madagascar not said here	one	of the heaviest birds	tree rules
3	die out	past	eagle		ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: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): 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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