Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 10

People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals.

Who acts: People, giant squids, stories · What happens: think, be, come · To what, where: sea monsters, kraken stories, real sea animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 (People, giant squids, stories), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	nsubj
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squids	amod
5	squids	squid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 monsters	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 monsters	cop
7	sea	sea	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 monsters	compound
8	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stories	det
12	kraken	kraken	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stories	compound
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 come	nsubj:pass
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	aux
16	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	conj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 animals	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 animals	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 animals	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 animals	cop
23	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 animals	amod
24	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sea	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 deep	punct
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 animals	compound
27	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thought	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	People		once property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	giant squids	sea monsters		tree rules
3	come	may · perfect · passive		the kraken stories	from squids = squid	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	present	stories = story	real sea animals		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:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:10.

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, 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.

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