Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 6

Giant tubeworms have no mouth and no gut; bacteria living inside them make food from chemicals in the vent water, and the worms can grow over two metres long.

Who acts: Giant tubeworms, bacteria, worms · What happens: have, live, make, grow · To what, where: mouth, 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 (Giant tubeworms, bacteria, worms), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tubeworms	amod
2	tubeworms	tubeworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 mouth	det
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gut	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 gut	det
8	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouth	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bacteria	punct
10	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	nsubj
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bacteria	acl
12	inside	inside	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 living	obl
14	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	parataxis
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 make	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 chemicals	case
17	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
20	vent	vent	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 water	compound
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 chemicals	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grow	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 grow	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 worms	det
25	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 grow	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 grow	aux
27	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 make	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 metres	case
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 metres	nummod
30	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 long	obl
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 grow	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	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	have	present	Giant tubeworms	no mouth and no gut			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
2	live	gerund	bacteria not said here			inside bacteria = bacterium	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside they=Location
3	make	present	bacteria	food	chemicals in the vent water		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material
4	grow	can	the worms			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:6.

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 ×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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