--- title: Giant squid live deep down in the dark sea, so they are rarely seen;… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant squid live deep down in the dark sea, so they are rarely seen; they can be about 12 metres long with their tentacles and were first filmed alive in 2004; the heavier colossal squid was reported to be filmed alive in its deep home in 2025. Who acts: Giant squid, whales. 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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 (Giant squid, whales), 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:14 # text = Giant squid live deep down in the dark sea, so they are rarely seen; they can be about 12 metres long with their tentacles and were first filmed alive in 2004; the heavier colossal squid was reported to be filmed alive in its deep home in 2025. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 deep deep ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 14 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 advmod _ _ 30 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 31 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 2004 2004 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:obl 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 37 colossal colossal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux:pass _ _ 43 filmed film VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 xcomp _ _ 44 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:obl 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 2025 2025 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Giant squid | | | | | down *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present · passive | | whales *= whale* | | | | rarely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | can | whales *= whale* | 12 metres | | | | with whales's tentacles | tree rules | | 4 | **film** | past · passive | Giant squid *not said here* | | | 2004 | | alive, first *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in 2004=Destination | | 5 | **report** | past · passive | | the heavier colossal squid | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **film** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | squid's deep home | | in 2025; alive *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in home=Destination | 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:14`. **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 ×2, 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. 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