Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 11

Amphipods are small shrimp-like animals in the deepest trenches that eat dead stuff sinking from above, and scientists have found plastic inside some of them.

Who acts: Amphipods, deepest trenches, dead stuff, scientists · What happens: be, eat, sink, find · To what, where: deepest trenches, dead stuff, plastic, some

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 (Amphipods, deepest trenches, dead stuff, scientists), 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	Amphipods	amphipod	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
4	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 shrimp	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 animals	case
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 trenches	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trenches	det
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 trenches	amod
11	trenches	trench	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	nmod
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 eat	nsubj
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trenches	acl:relcl
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuff	amod
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
16	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 stuff	acl
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 above	case
18	above	above	ADV	_	16 sinking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 found	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 found	aux
23	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 eat	conj
24	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
25	inside	inside	ADP	_	26 some	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 found	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 some	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Amphipods		the deepest trenches	like small animals	tree rules
2	eat	present	the deepest trenches	dead stuff			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
3	sink	gerund	dead stuff not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	find	present · perfect	scientists	plastic	some		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Topic

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:11.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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