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title: Cold seeps are places where gas and oil leak from the sea floor, and… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold seeps are places where gas and oil leak from the sea floor, and bacteria there make food from the chemicals; some seep animals live for hundreds of years. Who acts: Cold seeps, gas, bacteria, seep animals. A sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep
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# Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 13

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Cold seeps are places where gas and oil leak from the sea floor, and bacteria there make food from the chemicals; some seep animals live for hundreds of years.

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**Who acts:** Cold seeps, gas, bacteria, seep animals · **What happens:** be, leak, make, live · **To what, where:** places, sea floor, food, chemicals

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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 (Cold seeps, gas, bacteria, seep animals), 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:13
# text = Cold seeps are places where gas and oil leak from the sea floor, and bacteria there make food from the chemicals; some seep animals live for hundreds of years.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	seeps	seep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	leak	leak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
25	seep	seep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18: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 | **is a** | present | Cold seeps | places |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leak** | present | gas and oil |  |  | the sea floor |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from floor=Source |
| 3 | **make** | present | bacteria | food |  | the chemicals |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material |
| 4 | **live** | present | seep animals |  |  |  |  | for hundreds of years | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:13`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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.

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

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