--- title: Amphipods are small shrimp-like animals in the deepest trenches that… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics description: Amphipods are small shrimp-like animals in the deepest trenches that eat dead stuff sinking from above, and scientists have found plastic inside some of them. Who acts: Amphipods, deepest trenches, dead stuff, scientists. 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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 (Amphipods, deepest trenches, dead stuff, scientists), 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:11 # text = Amphipods are small shrimp-like animals in the deepest trenches that eat dead stuff sinking from above, and scientists have found plastic inside some of them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Amphipods amphipod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 trenches trench NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 sinking sink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 above above ADV RB _ 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 24 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 inside inside ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:nmod 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | Amphipods | | | the deepest trenches | | like small animals | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | the deepest trenches | dead stuff | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient | | 3 | **sink** | gerund | dead stuff *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **find** | present · perfect | scientists | plastic | | some | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Topic | 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:177-vents-and-trenches-tubeworms-iron-snails-the-challenger-deep-and-life-without-sunlight.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-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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