Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 8

The sea cow could not dive deep and was too slow to escape, and hunters killed them all within about 27 years.

Who acts: sea cow, hunters · What happens: not dive, be, escape, kill · To what, where: cows

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 (sea cow, hunters), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cow	compound
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dive	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 dive	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 dive	advmod
6	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	deep	deep	ADV	_	6 dive	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 slow	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slow	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 slow	advmod
11	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deep	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 escape	mark
13	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 slow	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 killed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 killed	cc
16	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 killed	nsubj
17	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dive	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 killed	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	within	within	ADP	_	23 years	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 27	advmod
22	27	27	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 killed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dive	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not dive	could	the sea cow			deep property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	the sea cow not said here			slow property	tree rules
3	escape	to-infinitive	the sea cow not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	kill	past	hunters	cows = cow	year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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:8.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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