Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 8

Fossil places with many small megalodon teeth near the shore show that the young grew up in warm, shallow nurseries, as great whites and many sharks still do.

Who acts: Fossil places, young, great whites · What happens: show, grow up, do · To what, where: warm shallow nurseries · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fossil places, young, great whites), 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	Fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 places	compound
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 show	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teeth	amod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teeth	amod
6	megalodon	megalodon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	compound
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 places	nmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teeth	nmod
11	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 grew	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 young	det
14	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 show	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 grew	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 nurseries	case
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nurseries	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 warm	punct
20	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nurseries	amod
21	nurseries	nursery	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 whites	punct
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 whites	case
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 whites	amod
25	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 do	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sharks	cc
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sharks	amod
28	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 whites	conj
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 do	advmod
30	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 grew	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	show	present	Fossil places with many small megalodon teeth near the shore			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grow up	past	the young	warm shallow nurseries		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nursery=Location
3	do	present	great whites and many sharks		still	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:8.

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 ×3, 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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