The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 6
The giant squid was filmed alive in its deep home for the first time in 2012, and its eyes are among the biggest of any animal, about as big as a football; like other squid it has eight arms and two longer tentacles.
Who acts: eyes, squid · What happens: film, be, have · To what, where: giant squid, deep home, eight arms
This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (eyes, 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 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 squid | amod |
| 3 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 filmed | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 home | amod |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filmed | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filmed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 2012 | case |
| 16 | 2012 | 2012 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 filmed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 biggest | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 biggest | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 biggest | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 biggest | cop |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 biggest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 biggest | det |
| 24 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 filmed | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 animal | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 animal | det |
| 27 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 biggest | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 big | punct |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 big | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 big | advmod |
| 31 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 biggest | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 football | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 football | det |
| 34 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 big | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 filmed | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 38 squid | case |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 squid | amod |
| 38 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 has | obl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 has | nsubj |
| 40 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 filmed | parataxis |
| 41 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 arms | nummod |
| 42 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 has | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 tentacles | cc |
| 44 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 tentacles | nummod |
| 45 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 tentacles | amod |
| 46 | tentacles | tentacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 arms | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filmed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | film | past · passive | the giant squid | squid's deep home | time | in 2012; alive property | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in home=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | present | squid's eyes | of any animal; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | squid's eyes not said here | as a football; about property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | present | squid | eight arms and two longer tentacles | like other squid | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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.
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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 ×4. 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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