Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 15
One elephant bird egg could hold about as much as 150 chicken eggs, and pieces of its thick shell are still found on beaches and dunes.
Who acts: One bird egg · What happens: hold, find · To what, where: much, pieces, beaches
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 (One bird egg), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 egg | nummod |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | compound |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 egg | compound |
| 4 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | aux |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hold | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 eggs | case |
| 11 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 eggs | nummod |
| 12 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eggs | compound |
| 13 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 much | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 shell | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shell | nmod:poss |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shell | amod |
| 20 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pieces | nmod |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 found | advmod |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hold | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 beaches | case |
| 25 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 found | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dunes | cc |
| 27 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beaches | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | could | One bird egg | much | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | pieces of egg's thick shell | beaches and dunes | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:15.
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. 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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