Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 3

The deep sea still keeps secrets: the coelacanth, thought extinct for 66 million years, turned up in a fishing net in 1938, and giant squid were first filmed alive only in 2004.

Who acts: deep sea, coelacanth · What happens: keep, think, turn up, film · To what, where: secrets, coelacanth, fishing net, giant squid, 2004

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 (deep sea, coelacanth), 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 sea	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 keeps	advmod
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keeps	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coelacanth	det
9	coelacanth	coelacanth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coelacanth	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 coelacanth	acl
12	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 million	compound
15	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 thought	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
18	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keeps	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 turned	compound:prt
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 net	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 net	det
22	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 net	compound
23	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 1938	case
25	1938	1938	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 turned	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 filmed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 filmed	cc
28	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 squid	amod
29	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 filmed	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 filmed	aux:pass
31	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 filmed	advmod
32	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 turned	conj
33	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 filmed	xcomp
34	only	only	ADV	_	36 2004	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 2004	case
36	2004	2004	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	32 filmed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the deep sea	secrets		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	think speech: other	participle		the coelacanth not said here		year	extinct property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn up	past	the coelacanth		a fishing net		in 1938	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in net=Location
4	film	past · passive		giant squid	2004		alive, first property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2004=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:3.

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): 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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