Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 14

The megamouth shark was first found in 1976, when one got tangled in a ship's sea anchor off Hawaii; it filters tiny shrimp with its huge mouth, and only a few hundred have ever been recorded.

Who acts: shark · What happens: find, tangle, filter, record · To what, where: megamouth shark, 1976, one, sea anchor, tiny shrimp, few hundred

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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 (shark), 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 shark	det
2	megamouth	megamouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shark	compound
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 found	advmod
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1976	case
8	1976	1976	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 found	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tangled	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 tangled	advmod
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 tangled	nsubj
12	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tangled	aux:pass
13	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 found	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 anchor	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anchor	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 ship	case
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 anchor	compound
19	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tangled	obl
20	off	off	ADP	_	21 Hawaii	case
21	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tangled	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 filters	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 filters	nsubj
24	filters	filter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	advcl
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shrimp	amod
26	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filters	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 mouth	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mouth	nmod:poss
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mouth	amod
30	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 filters	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 recorded	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 recorded	cc
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 hundred	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hundred	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hundred	amod
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 recorded	nsubj:pass
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 recorded	aux
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	40 recorded	advmod
39	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 recorded	aux:pass
40	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 filters	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		the megamouth shark	1976		first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	tangle	past · passive		one	a ship's sea anchor		off Hawaii	tree rules
3	filter	present	shark	tiny shrimp			with shark's huge mouth	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shrimp=Initial_Location
4	record	present · perfect · passive		a few hundred		ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:14.

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. 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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