The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 0

Far below the twilight zone the sea is black, freezing cold and squeezed by huge pressure, and food is so rare that animals must catch anything that comes near.

Who acts: sea, food, animals · What happens: be, freeze, squeeze, catch, come · To what, where: twilight zone, anything

This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (sea, food, 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 zone	advmod
2	below	below	ADP	_	5 zone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zone	det
4	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zone	compound
5	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 black	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 black	cop
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 freezing	punct
11	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 black	advcl
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 freezing	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 squeezed	cc
14	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cold	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 pressure	case
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pressure	amod
17	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 squeezed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rare	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rare	cc
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rare	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rare	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 rare	advmod
23	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 black	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 catch	mark
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 catch	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 catch	aux
27	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 rare	advcl
28	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 catch	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 comes	nsubj
30	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 anything	acl:relcl
31	near	near	ADV	_	30 comes	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 black	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sea		the twilight zone	black property	tree rules
2	freeze	gerund	the sea not said here			cold property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	squeeze	participle	the sea not said here			by huge pressure	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	food			rare property	tree rules
5	catch	must	animals	anything			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
6	come	present				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:0.

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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