The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 1

When you snorkel the water looks blue because water soaks up red light first and blue light last, so the deeper you go the bluer and darker it gets, until there is no sunlight at all.

Who acts: you, water, sunlight · What happens: snorkel, look, soak up, go, get, be · To what, where: red 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 (you, water, sunlight), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 snorkel	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 snorkel	nsubj
3	snorkel	snorkel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looks	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looks	xcomp
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 soaks	mark
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaks	nsubj
10	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looks	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 soaks	compound:prt
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 light	amod
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaks	obj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 soaks	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 light	cc
16	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soaks	conj
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 deeper	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 deeper	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 deeper	det
22	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 looks	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 deeper	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bluer	det
26	bluer	blue	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 deeper	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gets	cc
28	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 bluer	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gets	nsubj
30	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 deeper	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 is	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 is	mark
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gets	advcl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 sunlight	det
36	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 all	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 sunlight	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	snorkel	present	you				tree rules
2	look	present	the water			blue property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	soak up	present	water	red light		first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source
4	go	present	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	present	water				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	be	present	no sunlight at all		there		vn exist-47.1 «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:008-the-ocean.lesson:1.

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, 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.

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