Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 2

The secret is bacteria that make food from chemicals in the vent water instead of from sunlight, so the whole town lives on chemical food, like a kitchen run on a gas pipe instead of a sunny window.

Who acts: secret, bacteria, whole town · What happens: be, make, live · To what, where: bacteria, food, chemicals, chemical food

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 (secret, bacteria, whole town), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bacteria	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bacteria	cop
4	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bacteria	acl:relcl
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 chemicals	case
9	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
12	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	compound
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chemicals	nmod
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	17 sunlight	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 sunlight	case
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lives	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	23 lives	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 town	amod
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	nsubj
23	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 food	case
25	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 food	amod
26	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 run	punct
28	like	like	ADP	_	31 run	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kitchen	det
30	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 run	compound
31	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sunlight	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 pipe	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pipe	det
34	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pipe	compound
35	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 run	obl
36	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	40 window	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	36 instead	fixed
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 window	det
39	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 window	amod
40	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 run	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bacteria	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the secret	bacteria			tree rules
2	make	present	bacteria	food	chemicals in the vent water	instead sunlight and kitchen run	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material
3	live	present	the whole town		chemical food		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=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:2.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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