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title: No sunlight ever reaches there, yet these hot vents are crowded with… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: No sunlight ever reaches there, yet these hot vents are crowded with life: giant red-tipped tubeworms, hairy crabs, swarms of shrimp and even a snail wearing armour made of iron. Who acts: sunlight, hot vents, snail. A sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenge
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# Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 1

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No sunlight ever reaches there, yet these hot vents are crowded with life: giant red-tipped tubeworms, hairy crabs, swarms of shrimp and even a snail wearing armour made of iron.

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**Who acts:** sunlight, hot vents, snail · **What happens:** reach, be, tip, wearing, make · **To what, where:** armour

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight» 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 (sunlight, hot vents, snail), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:1
# text = No sunlight ever reaches there, yet these hot vents are crowded with life: giant red-tipped tubeworms, hairy crabs, swarms of shrimp and even a snail wearing armour made of iron.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.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 ×1
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	vents	vent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	crowded	crowded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	_
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	_
19	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	tubeworms	tubeworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
32	wearing	wearing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl	_	_
33	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **reach** | present | no sunlight |  |  | there | ever |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | this hot vents |  |  |  |  | with life; crowded *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wearing** | gerund | a snail *not said here* | armour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | armour *not said here* |  |  |  | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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): R5-strong ×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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