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title: Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals that swarm in such numbers that they can colour the sea pink, and penguins, seals, fish and the biggest whales all eat them. Who acts: everything, small like animals, animals, penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor 
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 1

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Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals that swarm in such numbers that they can colour the sea pink, and penguins, seals, fish and the biggest whales all eat them.

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**Who acts:** everything, small like animals, animals, penguins · **What happens:** depend, swarm, colour, eat · **To what, where:** such numbers, sea pink, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (everything, small like animals, animals, penguins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:1
# text = Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals that swarm in such numbers that they can colour the sea pink, and penguins, seals, fish and the biggest whales all eat them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swarm	swarm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	colour	colour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depend** | present | everything |  |  | there |  | on krill  small like animals | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on krill=Theme |
| 2 | **swarm** | present | small like animals |  |  | such numbers |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location |
| 3 | **colour** | can | animals *= animal* | the sea pink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | present | penguins and seals and fish and the biggest whales | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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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.

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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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