The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 6
The colossal squid lives in the deep Southern Ocean and is the heaviest animal without a backbone known; a young one was reported filmed alive in the wild for the first time in 2025.
Who acts: colossal squid · What happens: live, be, know, report, film · To what, where: deep Southern Ocean, heaviest animal, backbone, young one, wild
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (colossal squid), 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 squid | det |
| 2 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 squid | amod |
| 3 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 reported | parataxis |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Ocean | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ocean | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Ocean | amod |
| 8 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 9 Ocean | flat |
| 9 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 animal | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 animal | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 animal | det |
| 13 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 animal | amod |
| 14 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | conj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 backbone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 backbone | det |
| 17 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 animal | nmod |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 backbone | acl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 reported | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reported | aux:pass |
| 24 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 reported | xcomp |
| 26 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 filmed | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 wild | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wild | det |
| 29 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filmed | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 32 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 time | amod |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filmed | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 2025 | case |
| 35 | 2025 | 2025 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 time | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the colossal squid | the deep Southern Ocean | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the colossal squid not said here | the heaviest animal | without a backbone | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | participle | a backbone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | report | past · passive | a young one | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | film | participle | the wild | time | alive property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wild=Destination |
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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:6.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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