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title: The giant squid was filmed alive in its deep home for the first time… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: The giant squid was filmed alive in its deep home for the first time in 2012, and its eyes are among the biggest of any animal, about as big as a football; like other squid it has eight arms and two longer tentacles. Who acts: eyes, squid. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant s
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 6

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The giant squid was filmed alive in its deep home for the first time in 2012, and its eyes are among the biggest of any animal, about as big as a football; like other squid it has eight arms and two longer tentacles.

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**Who acts:** eyes, squid · **What happens:** film, be, have · **To what, where:** giant squid, deep home, eight arms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (eyes, squid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:6
# text = The giant squid was filmed alive in its deep home for the first time in 2012, and its eyes are among the biggest of any animal, about as big as a football; like other squid it has eight arms and two longer tentacles.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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 ×4
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	2012	2012	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advcl
41	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	46	amod	_	_
46	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **film** | past · passive |  | the giant squid |  | squid's deep home | time | in 2012; alive *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in home=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | squid's eyes |  |  |  |  | of any animal; big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | squid's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a football; about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | squid | eight arms and two longer tentacles |  |  |  | like other squid | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×4. **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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