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title: Deeper down live the colossal squid and the sperm whales that hunt s… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deeper down live the colossal squid and the sperm whales that hunt squid, and even under thick ice shelves, far from open water, scientists have found fish, sponges and other animals. Who acts: sperm whales, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and li
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# The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 3

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Deeper down live the colossal squid and the sperm whales that hunt squid, and even under thick ice shelves, far from open water, scientists have found fish, sponges and other animals.

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**Who acts:** sperm whales, scientists · **What happens:** live, hunt, find · **To what, where:** colossal squid, squid, fish

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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 (sperm whales, scientists), 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:3
# text = Deeper down live the colossal squid and the sperm whales that hunt squid, and even under thick ice shelves, far from open water, scientists have found fish, sponges and other animals.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sperm	sperm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	shelves	shelf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
22	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
30	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	sponges	sponge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present |  | the colossal squid and the sperm whales and thick ice shelves |  |  |  | down *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme squid=Location |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | the sperm whales and thick ice shelves | squid |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect | scientists | fish and sponges and other animals |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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