The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 12

In the cold Southern Ocean some animals grow much bigger than their cousins in warm seas, such as sea spiders as big as a dinner plate, which take in oxygen through their legs.

Who acts: animals, sea spiders · What happens: grow, take in · To what, where: cold Southern Ocean, oxygen, legs

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 (animals, sea spiders), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 Ocean	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ocean	det
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ocean	amod
4	Southern	Southern	PROPN	_	5 Ocean	compound
5	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grow	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 cousins	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cousins	nmod:poss
13	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bigger	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 seas	case
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seas	amod
16	seas	seas	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cousins	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spiders	punct
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	21 spiders	case
19	as	as	ADP	_	18 such	fixed
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spiders	compound
21	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cousins	conj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 big	advmod
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spiders	amod
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 plate	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 plate	det
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plate	compound
27	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 big	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 which	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 take	nsubj
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 spiders	acl:relcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	30 take	compound:prt
32	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 take	obj
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 legs	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 take	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	some animals			the cold Southern Ocean		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location
2	take in	present	sea spiders	oxygen		animals's legs			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:12.

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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