Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 1
No sunlight ever reaches there, yet these hot vents are crowded with life: giant red-tipped tubeworms, hairy crabs, swarms of shrimp and even a snail wearing armour made of iron.
Who acts: sunlight, hot vents, snail · What happens: reach, be, tip, wearing, make · To what, where: armour
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 (sunlight, hot vents, snail), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sunlight | det |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 reaches | advmod |
| 4 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 reaches | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crowded | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 12 crowded | cc |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 vents | det |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vents | amod |
| 10 | vents | vent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 crowded | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 crowded | cop |
| 12 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reaches | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crowded | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 tubeworms | punct |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tubeworms | amod |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tipped | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 red | punct |
| 19 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tubeworms | amod |
| 20 | tubeworms | tubeworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 life | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 crabs | punct |
| 22 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 crabs | amod |
| 23 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tubeworms | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 swarms | punct |
| 25 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tubeworms | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 shrimp | case |
| 27 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swarms | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 snail | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 snail | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 snail | det |
| 31 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tubeworms | conj |
| 32 | wearing | wearing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 snail | acl |
| 33 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wearing | obj |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 armour | acl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 iron | case |
| 36 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 made | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reaches | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | no sunlight | there | ever | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | this hot vents | with life; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tip | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | wearing | gerund | a snail not said here | armour | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | armour not said here | of iron | 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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:1.
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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