Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 9

The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest point of the ocean, nearly eleven kilometres down, and two men first reached it in 1960 in the submersible (a small deep-diving craft) Trieste.

Who acts: Challenger Deep, two men · What happens: be, reach · To what, where: deepest point, Deep, 1960

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 (Challenger Deep, two men), 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	3 Deep	det
2	Challenger	Challenger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Deep	compound
3	Deep	Deep	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 point	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 Trench	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Trench	det
6	Mariana	Mariana	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Trench	compound
7	Trench	trench	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Deep	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 point	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 point	det
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 point	amod
11	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 ocean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ocean	det
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 point	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kilometres	punct
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 eleven	advmod
17	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 kilometres	nummod
18	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 down	obl:unmarked
19	down	down	ADV	_	11 point	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 reached	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reached	cc
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 men	nummod
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 reached	nsubj
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 reached	advmod
25	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 point	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 reached	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 1960	case
28	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 reached	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 submersible	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 submersible	det
31	submersible	submersible	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reached	obl
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 craft	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 craft	det
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 craft	amod
35	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 diving	amod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 deep	punct
37	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 craft	compound
38	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 submersible	appos
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 craft	punct
40	Trieste	Trieste	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 submersible	appos
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 point	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench	the deepest point				of the ocean; down property	tree rules
2	reach	past	two men	Deep		1960		in the submersible; first property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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:9.

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, 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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