--- title: In the cold Southern Ocean some animals grow much bigger than their… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: In the cold Southern Ocean some animals grow much bigger than their cousins in warm seas, such as sea spiders as big as a dinner plate, which take in oxygen through their legs. Who acts: animals, sea spiders. 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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 (animals, sea spiders), 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:12 # text = In the cold Southern Ocean some animals grow much bigger than their cousins in warm seas, such as sea spiders as big as a dinner plate, which take in oxygen through their legs. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Southern Southern PROPN NNP _ 5 compound _ _ 5 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 6 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 xcomp _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 seas seas NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 21 case _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 31 in in ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound:prt 32 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | some animals | | | the cold Southern Ocean | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location | | 2 | **take in** | present | sea spiders | oxygen | | animals's legs | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=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:12`. **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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