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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 (Megalodon, shark), 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:5 # text = Megalodon was a giant shark, perhaps 15 to 20 metres long, with teeth up to about 17 centimetres; it ate whales and died out about 3.6 million years ago. # 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Megalodon Megalodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 8 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nmod _ _ 11 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 teeth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 17 17 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 29 3.6 3.6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 30 compound _ _ 30 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:obl:unmarked 32 ago ago ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23: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 | Megalodon | a giant shark | | | | with teeth to 17 centimetres | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | past | shark | whales | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient | | 3 | **die out** | past | shark *not said here* | | | | | ago *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:5`. **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 ×5, R6-punct-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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/4/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/)