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title: Snailfish have soft bones and watery bodies, so the pressure does no… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Snailfish have soft bones and watery bodies, so the pressure does not crush them, and the deepest fish ever filmed was a snailfish at over eight kilometres. Who acts: Snailfish, pressure, deepest fish. A sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life
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# Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 10

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Snailfish have soft bones and watery bodies, so the pressure does not crush them, and the deepest fish ever filmed was a snailfish at over eight kilometres.

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**Who acts:** Snailfish, pressure, deepest fish · **What happens:** have, not crush, film, be · **To what, where:** soft bones, bones, deepest fish, snailfish, eight kilometres

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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 (Snailfish, pressure, deepest fish), 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:10
# text = Snailfish have soft bones and watery bodies, so the pressure does not crush them, and the deepest fish ever filmed was a snailfish at over eight kilometres.
# 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): no change
1	Snailfish	snailfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	watery	watery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snailfish	snailfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Snailfish | soft bones and watery bodies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **crush** | present · do-support | the pressure | bones *= bone* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **film** | participle |  | the deepest fish *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the deepest fish | a snailfish |  | eight kilometres |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.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): 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.

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

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