--- title: When a whale dies and sinks to the deep sea floor, its body feeds an… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics description: When a whale dies and sinks to the deep sea floor, its body feeds animals for years, and bone-eating worms live only on whale bones. Who acts: whale, body, eating worms. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/10/) [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 deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/) / 10 # The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 10 When a whale dies and sinks to the deep sea floor, its body feeds animals for years, and bone-eating worms live only on whale bones. **Who acts:** whale, body, eating worms · **What happens:** die, sink, feed, live · **To what, where:** animals, whale bones This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (whale, body, eating worms), 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:10 # text = When a whale dies and sinks to the deep sea floor, its body feeds animals for years, and bone-eating worms live only on whale bones. # 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): R5-strong ×3 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sinks sink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 eating eating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 26 only only ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **die** | present | a whale | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **sink** | present | a whale *not said here* | | | | | to the deep sea floor | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **feed** | present | whale's body | | animals | | year | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | | 4 | **live** | present | eating worms | | | whale bones | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:10`. **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 ×3. **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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