The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 13

Sperm whales dive into the deep to hunt squid and find them in total darkness with clicks, which are among the loudest sounds made by any animal.

Who acts: Sperm whales, clicks · What happens: dive, hunt, find, be, make · To what, where: deep, squid, eyes, total darkness, loudest sounds

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 (Sperm whales, clicks), 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	Sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whales	compound
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dive	nsubj
3	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 deep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deep	det
6	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dive	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hunt	mark
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dive	advcl
9	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunt	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dive	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 darkness	case
14	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 darkness	amod
15	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 clicks	case
17	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sounds	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sounds	cop
21	among	among	ADP	_	24 sounds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sounds	det
23	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 sounds	amod
24	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clicks	acl:relcl
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sounds	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 animal	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 animal	det
28	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl:agent
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dive	present	Sperm whales		the deep		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into deep=Location
2	hunt	to-infinitive	Sperm whales not said here	squid			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme
3	find	infinitive	Sperm whales not said here	eyes = eye	total darkness	with clicks	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	is	present	clicks			among the loudest sounds	tree rules
5	make	participle		the loudest sounds not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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:13.

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 ×2. 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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