--- title: The megamouth shark, which lives deep and eats plankton (tiny animal… — Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes… · tree and pragmatics description: The megamouth shark, which lives deep and eats plankton (tiny animals and plants drifting in the sea), was discovered in 1976 off Hawaii, and fewer than three hundred have ever been seen. Who acts: megamouth shark, tiny animals. 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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 (megamouth shark, tiny animals), 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:9 # text = The megamouth shark, which lives deep and eats plankton (tiny animals and plants drifting in the sea), was discovered in 1976 off Hawaii, and fewer than three hundred have ever been seen. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 megamouth megamouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 deep deep ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 drifting drift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 1976 1976 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 off off ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Hawaii Hawaii PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 30 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 31 than than ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 compound _ _ 33 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 37 advmod _ _ 36 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 23 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 megamouth shark | | | | | deep *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | the megamouth shark *not said here* | plankton | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Patient | | 3 | **drift** | gerund | tiny animals and plants *not said here* | | | the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory | | 4 | **discover** | past · passive | | the megamouth shark | | 1976 | | off Hawaii | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **see** | present · perfect · passive | | three hundred | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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. 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