Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 6
Megalodon is extinct: no fresh teeth, bitten whales or sightings are found; as the seas cooled, its whale prey moved to cold water it could not follow.
Who acts: Megalodon, seas, whale prey, prey · What happens: be, bite, find, cool, move, not follow · To what, where: fresh teeth, cold water
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 (Megalodon, seas, whale prey, prey), 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 | Megalodon | Megalodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 extinct | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 extinct | cop |
| 3 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 extinct | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 teeth | det |
| 6 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whales | punct |
| 9 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 whales | amod |
| 10 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 teeth | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 sightings | cc |
| 12 | sightings | sighting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whales | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 extinct | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 cooled | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 cooled | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seas | det |
| 18 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cooled | nsubj |
| 19 | cooled | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moved | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moved | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 prey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prey | compound |
| 23 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 extinct | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 water | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 follow | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 follow | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 follow | advmod |
| 31 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 water | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 extinct | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Megalodon | extinct property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | find | present · passive | no fresh teeth and bitten whales or sightings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | cool | past | the seas | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | move | past | sea's whale prey | cold water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to water=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | not follow | could | prey | cold water not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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