Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 1

They were Steller's sea cows, and only about 27 years later they were all gone.

Who acts: sailors · What happens: be · To what, where: sea 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 (sailors), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cows	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	cop
3	Steller	Steller	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cows	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Steller	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cows	compound
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 27	advmod
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 27	advmod
11	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 later	obl:unmarked
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 gone	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 gone	advmod
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cows	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	sailors = sailor	Steller's sea cows					tree rules
2	is	past	sailors = sailor					all, gone, late property	tree rules

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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:1.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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