Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 7

Steller's sea cow was found in 1741 near islands in the far north Pacific, was up to about eight metres long and ate kelp.

What happens: find, be, eat · To what, where: sea cow, 1741, kelp

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: 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	Steller	Steller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cow	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Steller	case
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cow	compound
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1741	case
8	1741	1741	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 found	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 islands	case
10	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 Pacific	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Pacific	det
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 north	advmod
14	north	north	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Pacific	amod
15	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 islands	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 1741	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	cop
18	up	up	ADV	_	23 long	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 metres	case
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 eight	advmod
21	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 metres	nummod
22	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 long	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ate	cc
25	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 long	conj
26	kelp	kelp	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ate	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive	Steller's sea cow	1741	near islands in the north Pacific	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	past			to eight metres; long property	tree rules
3	eat	past	kelp			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kelp=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:7.

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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