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title: The deep sea still keeps secrets: the coelacanth, thought extinct fo… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The deep sea still keeps secrets: the coelacanth, thought extinct for 66 million years, turned up in a fishing net in 1938, and giant squid were first filmed alive only in 2004. Who acts: deep sea, coelacanth. A sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» of the bi
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# Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 3

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The deep sea still keeps secrets: the coelacanth, thought extinct for 66 million years, turned up in a fishing net in 1938, and giant squid were first filmed alive only in 2004.

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**Who acts:** deep sea, coelacanth · **What happens:** keep, think, turn up, film · **To what, where:** secrets, coelacanth, fishing net, giant squid, 2004

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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 (deep sea, coelacanth), 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:3
# text = The deep sea still keeps secrets: the coelacanth, thought extinct for 66 million years, turned up in a fishing net in 1938, and giant squid were first filmed alive only in 2004.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coelacanth	coelacanth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
12	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
15	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	1938	1938	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	advmod	_	_
32	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
33	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	2004	2004	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the deep sea | secrets |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  | the coelacanth *not said here* |  |  | year | extinct *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn up** | past | the coelacanth |  |  | a fishing net |  | in 1938 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in net=Location |
| 4 | **film** | past · passive |  | giant squid |  | 2004 |  | alive, first *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2004=Destination |

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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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**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): 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/).

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