Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 16

Moa had three forward toes and a small back toe, while an ostrich has only two toes on each foot, the fewest of any bird.

Who acts: Moa, ostrich · What happens: have · To what, where: three forward toes, two toes, foot

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 (Moa, ostrich), 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	Moa	moa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
4	forward	forward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 toes	amod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 toe	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 toe	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 toe	amod
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 toe	compound
10	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 has	mark
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ostrich	det
14	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 two	advmod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 toes	nummod
18	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 has	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 foot	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 foot	det
21	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 toes	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fewest	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fewest	det
24	fewest	few	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 toes	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 bird	case
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fewest	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Moa	three forward toes and a small back toe					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	have	present	a ostrich	two toes		each foot			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient

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:16.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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