Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 10

Livyatan was a sperm whale relative with teeth up to 36 centimetres that hunted other whales at the same time as megalodon; it is named after the Leviathan of old stories.

Who acts: Livyatan, teeth · What happens: be, hunt, name · To what, where: whale relative, other whales, young

This is a sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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 (Livyatan, teeth), 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	Livyatan	Livyatan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 relative	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 relative	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 relative	det
4	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whale	compound
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 relative	compound
6	relative	relative	NOUN	_	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 teeth	case
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 relative	nmod
9	up	up	ADP	_	12 centimetres	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 up	fixed
11	36	36	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 centimetres	nummod
12	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 teeth	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hunted	nsubj
14	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 teeth	acl:relcl
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 whales	amod
16	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hunted	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hunted	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 megalodon	case
22	megalodon	megalodon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 named	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 named	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 named	aux:pass
26	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 relative	parataxis
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 Leviathan	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Leviathan	det
29	Leviathan	Leviathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 named	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 stories	case
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 stories	amod
32	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 Leviathan	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Livyatan	a whale relative		with teeth up 36 centimetres	tree rules
2	hunt	past	teeth up 36 centimetres	other whales	time		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme
3	name	present · passive		young	after the Leviathan of old stories		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.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, R8-pos-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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