Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 14

Giant squid live deep down in the dark sea, so they are rarely seen; they can be about 12 metres long with their tentacles and were first filmed alive in 2004; the heavier colossal squid was reported to be filmed alive in its deep home in 2025.

Who acts: Giant squid, whales · What happens: live, see, be, film, report · To what, where: whales, 12 metres, 2004, heavier colossal squid, deep home

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 (Giant squid, whales), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 squid	amod
2	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deep	deep	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 down	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj:pass
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux:pass
14	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 metres	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 metres	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 metres	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 metres	cop
20	about	about	ADV	_	21 12	advmod
21	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 metres	nummod
22	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	parataxis
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 tentacles	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 tentacles	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tentacles	nmod:poss
26	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 metres	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 filmed	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 filmed	aux:pass
29	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 filmed	advmod
30	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	conj
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 filmed	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 2004	case
33	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 filmed	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 reported	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 squid	det
36	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 squid	amod
37	colossal	colossal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 squid	amod
38	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 reported	nsubj:pass
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 reported	aux:pass
40	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	43 filmed	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 filmed	aux:pass
43	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 reported	xcomp
44	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 filmed	xcomp
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 home	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 home	nmod:poss
47	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 home	amod
48	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 filmed	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	50 2025	case
50	2025	2025	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	43 filmed	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Giant squid			down property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present · passive		whales = whale		rarely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is a	can	whales = whale	12 metres		with whales's tentacles	tree rules
4	film	past · passive	Giant squid not said here		2004	alive, first property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in 2004=Destination
5	report	past · passive		the heavier colossal squid			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
6	film	to-infinitive · passive			squid's deep home	in 2025; alive property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in home=Destination

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:14.

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 ×2, 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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