The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 10

When a whale dies and sinks to the deep sea floor, its body feeds animals for years, and bone-eating worms live only on whale bones.

Who acts: whale, body, eating worms · What happens: die, sink, feed, live · To what, where: animals, whale bones

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 (whale, body, eating worms), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dies	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dies	nsubj
4	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 feeds	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sinks	cc
6	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dies	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 floor	amod
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	compound
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sinks	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 animals	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feeds	nsubj
15	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feeds	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 years	case
18	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 feeds	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 live	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
21	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eating	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 bone	punct
23	eating	eating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 worms	amod
24	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	nsubj
25	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 feeds	conj
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 bones	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 bones	case
28	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bones	compound
29	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 live	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dies	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	a whale					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sink	present	a whale not said here				to the deep sea floor	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	feed	present	whale's body	animals		year		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient
4	live	present	eating worms		whale bones			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:10.

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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