Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 4

They were big and slow, had few babies, and could not recover when people hunted them, brought rats and dogs and cut the forests.

Who acts: islands, people · What happens: be, have, not recover, hunt, bring, cut · To what, where: few babies, islands, rats, forests

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, people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 big	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 big	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 slow	cc
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 big	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 big	conj
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 babies	amod
9	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recover	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 recover	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 recover	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 recover	advmod
14	recover	recover	VERB	_	3 big	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 hunted	advmod
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hunted	nsubj
17	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 recover	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hunted	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hunted	conj
21	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brought	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dogs	cc
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rats	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
25	cut	cut	VERB	_	14 recover	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 forests	det
27	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 cut	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 big	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	islands = island		big property	tree rules
2	be		islands = island not said here			tree rules
3	have	past	islands = island not said here	few babies		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
4	not recover	could	islands = island not said here			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hunt	past	people	islands = island		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	bring	past	people not said here	rats and dogs		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
7	cut	infinitive	islands = island not said here	the forests		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forest=Product

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:4.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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