Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 10

Haast's eagle of New Zealand was the biggest eagle known; it hunted moa, giant flightless birds much heavier than itself, with claws as big as a tiger's.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, know, hunt · To what, where: biggest eagle, moa

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 (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	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eagle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Haast	case
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eagle	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Zealand	case
5	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zealand	compound
6	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eagle	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eagle	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 eagle	amod
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 eagle	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 eagle	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hunted	nsubj
14	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 eagle	parataxis
15	moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hunted	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 birds	punct
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 birds	amod
18	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 birds	amod
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heavier	nsubj
20	much	much	ADV	_	21 heavier	advmod
21	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 moa	acl
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 itself	case
23	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 heavier	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 claws	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 claws	case
26	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heavier	obl
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 claws	amod
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 tiger	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tiger	det
31	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 big	nsubj
32	's	's	PART	_	31 tiger	case
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eagle	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Haast's eagle of New Zealand	the biggest eagle	tree rules
2	know	participle		the biggest eagle not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hunt	past	eagle	moa	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moa=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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:10.

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. 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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