--- title: Tiny drifting plants called phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocea… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny drifting plants called phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean in spring, and whale poo helps feed them because it contains iron they need. Who acts: Tiny drifting plants, whale poo, poo, plants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny drifting plants, whale poo, poo, plants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:11 # text = Tiny drifting plants called phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean in spring, and whale poo helps feed them because it contains iron they need. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 drifting drift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 amod _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 phytoplankton phytoplankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 xcomp _ _ 6 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Southern Southern PROPN NNP _ 10 flat _ _ 10 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 feed feed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 contains contain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl 23 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | participle | Tiny drifting plants *not said here* | phytoplankton | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bloom** | present | Tiny drifting plants | | | the Southern Ocean | spring | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | | 4 | **help** | present | whale poo | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **feed** | infinitive | whale poo *not said here* | plants *= plant* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 6 | **contain** | present | poo | iron | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot iron=Theme | | 7 | **need** | present | plants *= plant* | iron *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot iron=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:11`. **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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