The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 15

Only twelve people have walked on the Moon; for a long time even fewer had reached the deepest point of the ocean, but by 2022 more than twenty people had been there, most of them since 2019.

Who acts: twelve people, fewer, twenty people · What happens: walk, reach, be, point · To what, where: Moon, deepest point, ocean

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 (twelve people, fewer, twenty people), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 twelve	advmod
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 people	nummod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walked	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 walked	aux
5	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 walked	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obl:unmarked
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 fewer	advmod
15	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 reached	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 reached	aux
17	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 walked	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 point	det
19	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 point	amod
20	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ocean	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ocean	det
23	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 point	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 2022	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 2022	cc
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 2022	case
27	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 walked	obl
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	30 twenty	advmod
29	than	than	ADP	_	28 more	fixed
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 people	nummod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 there	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 there	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 there	cop
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 2022	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 2022	punct
36	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 2022	nmod
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 most	nmod
39	since	since	ADP	_	40 2019	case
40	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 2022	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 walked	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	walk	present · perfect	twelve people		the Moon		by 2022 most of eyes since 2019	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moon=Trajectory
2	reach	past · perfect	fewer	the deepest point of the ocean		time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme
3	is	past · perfect	twenty people				there property	tree rules
4	point			the ocean				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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 ×1. 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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