--- title: In 2021 scientists drilling through about nine hundred metres of ice… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: In 2021 scientists drilling through about nine hundred metres of ice found sponges living on a rock underneath, far from open water and sunlight. Who acts: scientists, sponges. A sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colos…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/) / 14 # The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 14 In 2021 scientists drilling through about nine hundred metres of ice found sponges living on a rock underneath, far from open water and sunlight. **Who acts:** scientists, sponges · **What happens:** drill, find, live · **To what, where:** hundred metres, sponges, 2021, rock, underneath This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (scientists, sponges), 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:14 # text = In 2021 scientists drilling through about nine hundred metres of ice found sponges living on a rock underneath, far from open water and sunlight. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 obl _ _ 3 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 4 drilling drill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 compound _ _ 8 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 11 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 sponges sponge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 17 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:compound 18 underneath underneath NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=23:cc 25 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drill** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | | | hundred metres ice | | | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **find** | past | scientists | sponges | | 2021 | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Topic | | 3 | **live** | gerund | sponges *not said here* | a rock | | underneath | | far *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on underneath=Location | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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