Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 10
Some deep-sea glass sponges, with skeletons of glass-like material, may live for thousands of years in the cold, slow-growing deep.
Who acts: sea glass sponges · What happens: live, grow · To what, where: cold slow growing deep
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 glass sponges), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 sponges | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sea | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 deep | punct |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sponges | compound |
| 5 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sponges | compound |
| 6 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 live | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 skeletons | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 skeletons | case |
| 9 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sponges | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 material | case |
| 11 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 like | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 glass | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 material | amod |
| 14 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skeletons | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sponges | punct |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | aux |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 thousands | case |
| 19 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 live | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 thousands | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 deep | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 deep | det |
| 24 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deep | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cold | punct |
| 26 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deep | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 slow | punct |
| 28 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 deep | amod |
| 29 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 live | 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 | live | may | some sea glass sponges with skeletons of like material | the cold slow growing deep | for thousands of years | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in deep=Location | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | 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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:10.
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. 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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