The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 1

It looks empty and icy, but in spring tiny drifting plants turn the water green, tiny shrimp-like krill eat them, and the biggest animals that ever lived come to eat the krill.

Who acts: It, tiny drifting plants, tiny shrimp like krill, biggest animals · What happens: look, drift, turn, eat, live, come · To what, where: water, plants, krill

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (It, tiny drifting plants, tiny shrimp like krill, biggest animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 icy	cc
5	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 empty	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 turn	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 turn	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 spring	case
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obl
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 plants	amod
11	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 plants	amod
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 turn	nsubj
13	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 turn	obj
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 turn	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eat	punct
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 krill	amod
19	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 krill	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 shrimp	punct
21	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 krill	amod
22	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eat	nsubj
23	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 turn	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 eat	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animals	det
28	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 animals	amod
29	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 come	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lived	nsubj
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 lived	advmod
32	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 animals	acl:relcl
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looks	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	xcomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 krill	det
37	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eat	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It			empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	drift	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	present	tiny drifting plants	the water	spring	green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	eat	present	tiny shrimp like krill	plants = plant			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	live	past	the biggest animals		ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	infinitive	the biggest animals				tree rules
7	eat	to-infinitive	the biggest animals not said here	the krill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

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, 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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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