Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 0

On the dark sea floor there are cracks where water, heated by hot rock deep below, gushes out full of minerals, and when it meets the freezing sea the minerals turn into black smoke and build tall chimneys.

Who acts: cracks, water, minerals · What happens: be, heat, gush, meet, freeze, turn · To what, where: dark sea floor, water, freezing sea, black smoke, tall chimneys

This is a sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight» 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 (cracks, water, minerals), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 floor	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floor	compound
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 are	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 are	expl
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 are	nsubj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 gushes	advmod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gushes	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heated	punct
12	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 water	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 rock	case
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rock	amod
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heated	obl
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heated	conj
17	below	below	ADV	_	16 deep	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gushes	punct
19	gushes	gush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cracks	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADV	_	21 full	advmod
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 gushes	xcomp
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 minerals	case
23	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 meets	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 meets	cc
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 meets	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 meets	nsubj
28	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 are	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
30	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sea	amod
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meets	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 minerals	det
33	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 turn	nsubj
34	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sea	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 smoke	case
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 smoke	amod
37	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 turn	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 build	cc
39	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 turn	conj
40	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 chimneys	amod
41	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 build	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 are	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	cracks		the dark sea floor; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	heat	participle		water not said here		by hot rock	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	gush	present	water			full property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	present	water	the freezing sea			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Co-Agent
5	freeze	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	turn	present	the minerals	the freezing sea not said here	black smoke		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into smoke=Trajectory
7	build	present	the minerals not said here	tall chimneys			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chimney=Product

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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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