Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 12

The coelacanth was thought extinct for 66 million years until one was caught off South Africa in 1938; it lives deep down, and its fleshy fins move like legs.

Who acts: coelacanth, fleshy fins · What happens: think, catch, live, move · To what, where: coelacanth, one, 1938

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 (coelacanth, fleshy fins), 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	2 coelacanth	det
2	coelacanth	coelacanth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux:pass
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 caught	mark
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 caught	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 Africa	case
15	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Africa	compound
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 1938	case
18	1938	1938	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 caught	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lives	nsubj
21	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
22	deep	deep	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 down	advmod
23	down	down	ADV	_	21 lives	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 move	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 move	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fins	nmod:poss
27	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fins	amod
28	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 move	nsubj
29	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lives	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 legs	case
31	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 move	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · passive		the coelacanth		year	extinct property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	catch	past · passive		one	1938		off South Africa	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	live	present	coelacanth				down property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	move	present	coelacanth's fleshy fins				like legs	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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