The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 11
Tiny drifting plants called phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean in spring, and whale poo helps feed them because it contains iron they need.
Who acts: Tiny drifting plants, whale poo, poo, plants · What happens: drift, call, bloom, help, feed, contain · To what, where: phytoplankton, Southern Ocean, plants, iron · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tiny drifting plants, whale poo, poo, plants), 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 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 plants | amod |
| 2 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 plants | amod |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bloom | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 plants | acl |
| 5 | phytoplankton | phytoplankton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Ocean | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ocean | det |
| 9 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 10 Ocean | flat |
| 10 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bloom | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spring | case |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bloom | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 helps | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 helps | cc |
| 15 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poo | compound |
| 16 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 helps | nsubj |
| 17 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bloom | conj |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 helps | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | obj |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 contains | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 contains | nsubj |
| 22 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 helps | advcl |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 contains | obj |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 need | nsubj |
| 25 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 iron | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | call | participle | Tiny drifting plants not said here | phytoplankton | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bloom | present | Tiny drifting plants | the Southern Ocean | spring | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | |||
| 4 | help | present | whale poo | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feed | infinitive | whale poo not said here | plants = plant | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | contain | present | poo | iron | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme | ||||
| 7 | need | present | plants = plant | iron not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot iron=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, 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:11.
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. 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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