Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 14

A deep-sea octopus was watched guarding her eggs for about four and a half years, the longest egg-guarding time known, because eggs grow very slowly in the cold.

Who acts: sea octopus, eggs · What happens: watch, guard, know, grow · To what, where: sea octopus, eggs, longest guarding time, cold

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 (sea octopus, eggs), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 octopus	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 deep	punct
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 octopus	compound
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watched	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 watched	aux:pass
7	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 watched	xcomp
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nmod:poss
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 guarding	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 four	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 four	advmod
13	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 guarding	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 years	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 half	det
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	17 years	compound
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 four	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 guarding	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
20	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 time	amod
21	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guarding	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 egg	punct
23	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 time	compound
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 years	appos
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 time	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grow	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 grow	mark
28	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grow	nsubj
29	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 watched	advcl
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 slowly	advmod
31	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	29 grow	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 cold	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cold	det
34	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grow	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 watched	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	past · passive		a sea octopus			tree rules
2	guard	gerund	a sea octopus not said here	animal's eggs		for four and half years	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary
3	guard	gerund					vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	know	participle		the longest guarding time not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	grow	present	eggs		the cold	slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cold=Location

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:14.

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, R8-pos-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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