--- title: The coelacanth was thought extinct for 66 million years until one wa… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: The coelacanth was thought extinct for 66 million years until one was caught off South Africa in 1938; it lives deep down, and its fleshy fins move like legs. Who acts: coelacanth, fleshy fins. 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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 (coelacanth, fleshy fins), 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:12 # text = The coelacanth was thought extinct for 66 million years until one was caught off South Africa in 1938; it lives deep down, and its fleshy fins move like legs. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coelacanth coelacanth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 66 66 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 compound _ _ 8 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 14 off off ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 1938 1938 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 deep deep ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 23 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 fleshy fleshy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | | the coelacanth | | | year | extinct *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **catch** | past · passive | | one | | 1938 | | off South Africa | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **live** | present | coelacanth | | | | | down *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | present | coelacanth's fleshy fins | | | | | like legs | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/11/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/)