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title: People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken s… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics
description: People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals. Who acts: People, giant squids, stories. A sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» of the biology cou
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# Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers, sentence 10

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People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals.

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**Who acts:** People, giant squids, stories · **What happens:** think, be, come · **To what, where:** sea monsters, kraken stories, real sea animals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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 (People, giant squids, stories), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:10
# text = People once thought giant squids were sea monsters, and the kraken stories may have come from them, but they are real deep-sea animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	squids	squid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	sea	sea	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod
8	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	kraken	kraken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | People |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | giant squids | sea monsters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | may · perfect · passive |  | the kraken stories |  |  |  | from squids *= squid* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | stories *= story* | real sea animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers.lesson:10`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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