--- title: Great white sharks competed for the same food, and tooth chemistry s… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: Great white sharks competed for the same food, and tooth chemistry suggests they ate at the same level of the food chain, so they may have helped finish megalodon; this is still debated. Who acts: Great white sharks, tooth chemistry, teeth. 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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 (Great white sharks, tooth chemistry, teeth), 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:7 # text = Great white sharks competed for the same food, and tooth chemistry suggests they ate at the same level of the food chain, so they may have helped finish megalodon; this is still debated. # 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 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 competed compete VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 chemistry chemistry NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 29 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 30 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 31 megalodon megalodon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 33 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 debated debate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **compete** | past | Great white sharks | | | | | for the same food | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | tooth chemistry | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** | past | teeth *= tooth* | | | the same level of the food chain | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | may · perfect | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **finish** | infinitive | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | megalodon | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality megalodon=Eventuality | | 6 | **debate** | present · passive | | this | | | still | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | 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:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [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/) - next →: [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/)