The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 3

Most of the deep sea floor has never been seen by any person, which is why people say we have mapped the Moon better than the bottom of our own ocean.

Who acts: Most, person, people, we · What happens: not see, be, say, map · To what, where: Moon · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Most, person, people, we), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 seen	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floor	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Most	nmod
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 seen	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 seen	aux
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 why	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 why	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	cop
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 person	acl:relcl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 why	advcl:relcl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 mapped	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mapped	aux
22	mapped	map	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 say	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Moon	det
24	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 mapped	obj
25	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 mapped	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bottom	det
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mapped	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 ocean	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 ocean	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 ocean	amod
32	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bottom	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect · passive	Most of the deep sea floor			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	any person		why property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	map	present · perfect	we	the Moon	than the bottom of our own ocean; well property	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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:3.

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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