Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 10

Snailfish have soft bones and watery bodies, so the pressure does not crush them, and the deepest fish ever filmed was a snailfish at over eight kilometres.

Who acts: Snailfish, pressure, deepest fish · What happens: have, not crush, film, be · To what, where: soft bones, bones, deepest fish, snailfish, eight kilometres

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 (Snailfish, pressure, deepest fish), 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	Snailfish	snailfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bones	amod
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bodies	cc
6	watery	watery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bodies	amod
7	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bones	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crush	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 crush	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pressure	det
11	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crush	nsubj
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crush	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 crush	advmod
14	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crush	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 snailfish	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 snailfish	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fish	det
19	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 snailfish	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 filmed	advmod
22	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fish	acl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 snailfish	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 snailfish	det
25	snailfish	snailfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crush	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 kilometres	case
27	over	over	ADV	_	28 eight	advmod
28	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 kilometres	nummod
29	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 snailfish	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	Snailfish	soft bones and watery bodies			tree rules
2	not crush	present · do-support	the pressure	bones = bone			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	film	participle		the deepest fish not said here		ever	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the deepest fish	a snailfish	eight kilometres		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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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