The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 0

The ocean is a building of floors made of water: the sunlit zone in the top 200 metres, where there is enough light for plankton to grow, and below it ever darker floors down to the black deep, where the only light is made by animals themselves.

Who acts: ocean, enough light, animals · What happens: be, make, grow · To what, where: building, floors, only light

This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (ocean, enough light, animals), 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 ocean	det
2	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 building	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 building	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 floors	case
7	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 building	nmod
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 floors	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 zone	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 zone	det
13	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 zone	amod
14	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 building	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 metres	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 metres	det
17	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 metres	amod
18	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 metres	nummod
19	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 zone	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 is	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 is	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 zone	acl:relcl
24	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 light	amod
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 plankton	case
27	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 light	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 grow	mark
29	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 plankton	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 down	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 down	cc
32	below	below	ADP	_	36 floors	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 floors	nmod
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 darker	advmod
35	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 floors	amod
36	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 down	obl
37	down	down	ADV	_	23 is	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 deep	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 deep	det
40	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 deep	amod
41	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 down	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 made	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 made	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 light	det
45	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 light	amod
46	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 made	nsubj:pass
47	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 made	aux:pass
48	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 down	advcl
49	by	by	ADP	_	50 animals	case
50	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 made	obl:agent
51	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 animals	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 building	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 ocean	a building		of floors; the sunlit zone in the top 200 metres nmod	tree rules
2	make	participle		floors not said here		of water	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	be	present	enough light for plankton		there	down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	to-infinitive	enough light for plankton not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	present · passive	animals animals	the only light			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product

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:008-the-ocean.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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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