Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 2

Islands often had giants that no one else had: Haast's eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, giant lemurs and elephant birds in Madagascar.

Who acts: Islands, one · What happens: have · To what, where: giants

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 (Islands, one), 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	Islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giants	acl:relcl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 moa	punct
11	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 moa	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Haast	case
13	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hunting	compound
14	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 moa	compound
15	moa	moa	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	parataxis
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Zealand	case
17	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Zealand	compound
18	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 moa	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lemurs	punct
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lemurs	amod
21	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 moa	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 birds	cc
23	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 birds	compound
24	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lemurs	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Madagascar	case
26	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lemurs	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Islands	giants				often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
2	have	past	no one	giants					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:2.

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): 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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