--- title: Megalodon is extinct: no fresh teeth, bitten whales or sightings are… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Megalodon is extinct: no fresh teeth, bitten whales or sightings are found; as the seas cooled, its whale prey moved to cold water it could not follow. Who acts: Megalodon, seas, whale prey, prey. 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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, seas, whale prey, prey), 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:6 # text = Megalodon is extinct: no fresh teeth, bitten whales or sightings are found; as the seas cooled, its whale prey moved to cold water it could not follow. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Megalodon Megalodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 extinct extinct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 6 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 sightings sighting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 cooled cool VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | Megalodon | | | | | extinct *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bite** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | present · passive | | no fresh teeth and bitten whales or sightings | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **cool** | past | the seas | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **move** | past | sea's whale prey | | | cold water | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to water=Trajectory | | 6 | **not** **follow** | could | prey | cold water *not said here* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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