The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 3
Deeper down live the colossal squid and the sperm whales that hunt squid, and even under thick ice shelves, far from open water, scientists have found fish, sponges and other animals.
Who acts: sperm whales, scientists · What happens: live, hunt, find · To what, where: colossal squid, squid, fish
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 (sperm whales, scientists), 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 | Deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 squid | det |
| 5 | colossal | colossal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 squid | amod |
| 6 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 whales | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 whales | det |
| 9 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 whales | compound |
| 10 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 squid | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 hunt | nsubj |
| 12 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 whales | acl:relcl |
| 13 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunt | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shelves | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 shelves | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 shelves | advmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 shelves | case |
| 18 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shelves | amod |
| 19 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shelves | compound |
| 20 | shelves | shelf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whales | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shelves | punct |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 shelves | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 water | amod |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 far | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 scientists | punct |
| 27 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 found | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 found | aux |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 live | conj |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 found | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sponges | punct |
| 32 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fish | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 animals | cc |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 animals | amod |
| 35 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fish | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the colossal squid and the sperm whales and thick ice shelves | down property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme squid=Location | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | the sperm whales and thick ice shelves | squid | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | present · perfect | scientists | fish and sponges and other animals | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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