--- title: Yet the biggest animal of all time is not a lost monster but alive t… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet the biggest animal of all time is not a lost monster but alive today: the blue whale, up to about 30 metres long, heavier than any dinosaur. Who acts: biggest animal. A sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» of the biology course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/) / 4 # Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 4 Yet the biggest animal of all time is not a lost monster but alive today: the blue whale, up to about 30 metres long, heavier than any dinosaur. **Who acts:** biggest animal · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** lost monster 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 (biggest animal), 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:4 # text = Yet the biggest animal of all time is not a lost monster but alive today: the blue whale, up to about 30 metres long, heavier than any dinosaur. # 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 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 lost lost ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 15 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case 23 about about ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 appos _ _ 26 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the biggest animal of all time | a lost monster but today | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the biggest animal of all time *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/3/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/)