The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 3
Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat on the top floor and riding back down before sunrise: it is the biggest journey animals make anywhere on Earth, every single day.
Who acts: you, whole town, light, animals · What happens: think, get, eat, ride back, be, make · To what, where: lift, top floor, biggest journey, Earth
This is a sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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 (you, whole town, light, 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Think | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 town | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 lift | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lift | det |
| 11 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 getting | obl |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 getting | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 getting | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 18 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 floor | amod |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eat | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 riding | cc |
| 21 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 eat | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 riding | advmod |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 riding | advmod |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 sunrise | case |
| 25 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 riding | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 make | punct |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 journey | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 journey | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 journey | det |
| 30 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 journey | amod |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 32 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 make | nsubj |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 journey | acl:relcl |
| 34 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 make | advmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 Earth | case |
| 36 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 day | punct |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 day | det |
| 39 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 day | amod |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of light; as the whole town | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | the whole town not said here | a lift | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | the whole town not said here | the top floor | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ride back | gerund | the whole town not said here | sunrise | down property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is a | present | light | the biggest journey | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | present | animals | the biggest journey not said here | Earth | day | anywhere property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product |
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:175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.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): R5-strong ×3. 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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