Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 13

Cold seeps are places where gas and oil leak from the sea floor, and bacteria there make food from the chemicals; some seep animals live for hundreds of years.

Who acts: Cold seeps, gas, bacteria, seep animals · What happens: be, leak, make, live · To what, where: places, sea floor, food, chemicals

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 (Cold seeps, gas, bacteria, seep animals), 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	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seeps	amod
2	seeps	seep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 places	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 places	cop
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	conj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 leak	advmod
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leak	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 oil	cc
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gas	conj
9	leak	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 places	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floor	compound
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leak	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bacteria	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bacteria	cc
16	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	nsubj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 bacteria	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 chemicals	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chemicals	det
22	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 seep	punct
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 animals	advmod
25	seep	seep	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 animals	compound
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	nsubj
27	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 make	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 hundreds	case
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 years	case
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hundreds	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 places	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cold seeps	places			tree rules
2	leak	present	gas and oil		the sea floor		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from floor=Source
3	make	present	bacteria	food	the chemicals		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material
4	live	present	seep animals			for hundreds of years	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:13.

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, R6-punct-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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