Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 14

Elephant birds of Madagascar were taller than a grown-up, much heavier than an ostrich, could not fly and died out roughly a thousand years ago.

Who acts: Elephant birds · What happens: be, grow, not fly, die out

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 (Elephant birds), 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	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birds	compound
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 taller	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Madagascar	case
4	Madagascar	madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 birds	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taller	cop
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 grown	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 up	det
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 up	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 up	punct
11	up	up	ADP	_	6 taller	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heavier	punct
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 heavier	advmod
14	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 taller	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 ostrich	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ostrich	det
17	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heavier	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fly	punct
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fly	advmod
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taller	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 died	cc
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fly	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 died	compound:prt
25	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	27 thousand	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thousand	det
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ago	obl:unmarked
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	23 died	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taller	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Elephant birds of Madagascar	tall property	tree rules
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be		Elephant birds of Madagascar not said here	than a ostrich	tree rules
4	not fly	could			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	die out	past		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:386-giants-people-saw-steller-s-sea-cow-haast-s-eagle-giant-lemurs-and-elephant-birds.lesson:14.

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 ×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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