--- title: The colossal squid lives in the deep Southern Ocean and is the heavi… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: The colossal squid lives in the deep Southern Ocean and is the heaviest animal without a backbone known; a young one was reported filmed alive in the wild for the first time in 2025. Who acts: colossal squid. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colossal squid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:6 # text = The colossal squid lives in the deep Southern Ocean and is the heaviest animal without a backbone known; a young one was reported filmed alive in the wild for the first time in 2025. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 colossal colossal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 Southern Southern PROPN NNP _ 9 flat _ _ 9 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 heaviest heavy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 15 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 25 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 26 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:obl 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 33 amod _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | the colossal squid | | | the deep Southern Ocean | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | the colossal squid *not said here* | the heaviest animal | | | | without a backbone | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | participle | | a backbone *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **report** | past · passive | | a young one | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **film** | participle | | | | the wild | time | alive *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in wild=Destination | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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