--- title: Far below the twilight zone the sea is black, freezing cold and sque… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics description: Far below the twilight zone the sea is black, freezing cold and squeezed by huge pressure, and food is so rare that animals must catch anything that comes near. Who acts: sea, food, animals. 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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 (sea, food, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:0 # text = Far below the twilight zone the sea is black, freezing cold and squeezed by huge pressure, and food is so rare that animals must catch anything that comes near. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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): no change 1 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 2 below below ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 twilight twilight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 freezing freeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 squeezed squeeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 28 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 near near ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the sea | | | the twilight zone | | black *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **freeze** | gerund | the sea *not said here* | | | | | cold *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **squeeze** | participle | the sea *not said here* | | | | | by huge pressure | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | food | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **catch** | must | animals | anything | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 6 | **come** | present | | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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