Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave, sentence 0

Walk a little way into a cave and the daylight disappears; deeper in, it is pitch black all day and all year, so eyes stop being useful.

Who acts: you, daylight, eyes · What happens: walk, disappear, be, stop · To what, where: little way, cave

This is a sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 (you, daylight, eyes), 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	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 way	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 way	amod
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 disappears	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daylight	det
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disappears	nsubj
11	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 disappears	punct
13	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 in	advmod
14	in	in	ADV	_	11 disappears	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pitch	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 black	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 black	cop
18	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 black	obl
19	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Walk	parataxis
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 black	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 year	cc
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stop	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	28 stop	advmod
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stop	nsubj
28	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 useful	cop
30	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stop	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here	a little way		into a cave result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cave=Result
2	disappear	present	the daylight				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	daylight		day	pitch obl; black property	tree rules
4	stop	present	eyes				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is	gerund	eyes not said here			useful property	tree rules

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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:0.

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, 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.

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