The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 7

Huge numbers of animals swim up from the deep at night to feed near the surface and go back down at dawn, and this daily migration is the biggest movement of animals on Earth.

Who acts: Huge numbers, daily migration · What happens: swim up, feed, go back, be · To what, where: deep, surface, biggest movement

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 (Huge numbers, daily migration), 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	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 numbers	amod
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swim	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 animals	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 numbers	nmod
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 deep	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deep	det
9	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 feed	mark
13	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swim	advcl
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 surface	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 surface	det
16	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 go	cc
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 feed	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	20 down	advmod
20	down	down	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 dawn	case
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 movement	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 movement	cc
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 migration	det
26	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 migration	amod
27	migration	migration	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 movement	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 movement	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 movement	det
30	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 movement	amod
31	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 animals	case
33	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 movement	nmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 Earth	case
35	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 animals	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	present	Huge numbers of animals		the deep	night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from deep=Trajectory
2	feed	to-infinitive	Huge numbers of animals not said here		the surface			vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	go back	infinitive	Huge numbers of animals not said here			dawn	down property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	is a	present	this daily migration	the biggest movement			of animals on Earth	tree rules

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:7.

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): no change. 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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