Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 13
The blue whale is the biggest animal known ever to have lived, up to about 30 metres long, because water holds up its weight.
Who acts: blue whale, water · What happens: be, know, live, hold up · To what, where: biggest animal, weight
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 (blue whale, water), 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 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animal | acl |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 known | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lived | aux |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 known | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 metres | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 30 | advmod |
| 17 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 metres | nummod |
| 18 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 long | obl |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 holds | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 holds | mark |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holds | nsubj |
| 23 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 holds | compound:prt |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 weight | nmod:poss |
| 26 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 holds | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | 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 | present | the blue whale | the biggest animal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | the biggest animal not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive · perfect | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hold up | present | water | water's weight | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=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:13.
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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