Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 4
Yet the biggest animal of all time is not a lost monster but alive today: the blue whale, up to about 30 metres long, heavier than any dinosaur.
Who acts: biggest animal · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: lost monster
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 (biggest animal), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 monster | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monster | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animal | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 monster | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 monster | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monster | det |
| 11 | lost | lost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monster | amod |
| 12 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 today | cc |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monster | conj |
| 15 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monster | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 whale | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 whale | det |
| 18 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 whale | amod |
| 19 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 monster | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 metres | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 30 | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 up | fixed |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 30 | advmod |
| 24 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 metres | nummod |
| 25 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 whale | appos |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 metres | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heavier | punct |
| 28 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 monster | parataxis |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 dinosaur | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 dinosaur | det |
| 31 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heavier | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 monster | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the biggest animal of all time | a lost monster but today | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the biggest animal of all time not said here | 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:4.
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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