Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 11
Sea scorpions were relatives of spiders that lived over 400 million years ago, and the biggest were longer than a man.
Who acts: Sea scorpions, spiders, biggest · What happens: be, live · To what, where: relatives
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 (Sea scorpions, spiders, biggest), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 scorpions | compound |
| 2 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relatives | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 relatives | cop |
| 4 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spiders | case |
| 6 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 relatives | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spiders | acl:relcl |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 million | advmod |
| 10 | 400 | 400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 million | compound |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 longer | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 longer | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 biggest | det |
| 17 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 longer | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 longer | cop |
| 19 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 relatives | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 longer | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 relatives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sea scorpions | relatives | of spiders | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past | spiders | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the biggest | than a man; long property | 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:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.lesson:11.
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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