Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds, sentence 9

Steller's sea cow had no teeth; hard rough plates in its mouth crushed soft seaweed, and its living relatives are the manatee and the dugong.

Who acts: sea cow, hard rough plates, living relatives · What happens: have, crush, be · To what, where: teeth, soft seaweed, manatee

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, hard rough plates, living relatives), 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	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 teeth	det
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plates	amod
10	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plates	amod
11	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 crushed	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 mouth	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mouth	nmod:poss
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plates	nmod
15	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
16	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seaweed	amod
17	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crushed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 manatee	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 manatee	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 relatives	nmod:poss
21	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 relatives	compound
22	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 manatee	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 manatee	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 manatee	det
25	manatee	manatee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dugong	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dugong	det
28	dugong	dugong	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 manatee	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Steller's sea cow	no teeth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	crush	past	hard rough plates in Pacific's mouth	soft seaweed	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument seaweed=Patient
3	is a	present	Pacific's living relatives	the manatee and the dugong	tree rules

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:9.

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): R5-strong ×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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