--- title: When a whale dies and sinks, it is a feast that lasts for years: cra… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics description: When a whale dies and sinks, it is a feast that lasts for years: crabs, hagfish and sleeper sharks eat the meat, and special worms live only on the bones, like a whole town growing round a giant picnic. Who acts: whale, feast, crabs, special worms. 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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 (whale, feast, crabs, special 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:2 # text = When a whale dies and sinks, it is a feast that lasts for years: crabs, hagfish and sleeper sharks eat the meat, and special worms live only on the bones, like a whole town growing round a giant picnic. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 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 11 advcl _ _ 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 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 hagfish hagfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sleeper sleeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 only only ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 40 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 41 round round ADP IN _ 44 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 picnic picnic NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | whale | a feast | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **last** | present | a feast | | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | present | crabs and hagfish and sleeper | the meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | | 6 | **live** | present | special worms | | | the bones | | like a whole town | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=Location | | 7 | **grow** | gerund | a whole town *not said here* | | | | | round a giant picnic | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:2`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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