Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 9

Dunkleosteus was an armoured fish that lived about 360 million years ago; it had no teeth but sharp bony blades in its jaws and one of the strongest bites of any fish.

Who acts: Dunkleosteus, armoured fish, young · What happens: be, live, have, bite · To what, where: armoured fish, teeth, fish

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 (Dunkleosteus, armoured fish, young), 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	Dunkleosteus	Dunkleosteus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	armoured	armoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 million	advmod
9	360	360	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 teeth	det
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 blades	cc
19	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blades	amod
20	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 blades	amod
21	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 teeth	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 jaws	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 jaws	nmod:poss
24	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 blades	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 teeth	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 bites	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bites	det
29	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 bites	amod
30	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fish	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 fish	det
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bites	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fish	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dunkleosteus	a armoured fish		tree rules
2	live	past	a armoured fish		ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	young	no teeth but sharp bony blades in young's jaws		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
4	bite			any fish		nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient

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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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