--- title: Livyatan was a sperm whale relative with teeth up to 36 centimetres… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Livyatan was a sperm whale relative with teeth up to 36 centimetres that hunted other whales at the same time as megalodon; it is named after the Leviathan of old stories. Who acts: Livyatan, teeth. 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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 (Livyatan, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.lesson:10 # text = Livyatan was a sperm whale relative with teeth up to 36 centimetres that hunted other whales at the same time as megalodon; it is named after the Leviathan of old stories. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Livyatan Livyatan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 relative relative NOUN NN _ 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 up up ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case 11 36 36 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 megalodon megalodon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 27 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Leviathan Leviathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Livyatan | a whale relative | | | | with teeth up 36 centimetres | tree rules | | 2 | **hunt** | past | teeth up 36 centimetres | other whales | | | time | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme | | 3 | **name** | present · passive | | young | | | after the Leviathan of old stories | | vn appoint-29.1 «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](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:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/9/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/)