The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 4
Sunlight gets weaker as you go deeper; below about two hundred metres it is very dim, and below about a thousand metres there is no sunlight at all.
Who acts: Sunlight, you · What happens: get, go, be · To what, where: hundred metres, thousand metres
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 (Sunlight, you), 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 | Sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | weaker | weak | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 gets | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | advcl |
| 7 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 dim | punct |
| 9 | below | below | ADP | _ | 13 metres | case |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 hundred | advmod |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hundred | compound |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dim | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dim | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dim | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 dim | advmod |
| 17 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 metres | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 metres | cc |
| 20 | below | below | ADP | _ | 24 metres | case |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 thousand | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 thousand | det |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 metres | nummod |
| 24 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 is | obl |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 gets | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 sunlight | det |
| 28 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 sunlight | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | 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 | get | present | Sunlight | weak property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | present | you | deep property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | sunlight | hundred metres | dim property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | present | no sunlight at all | thousand metres; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below metre=Location |
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:4.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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