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title: Vent shrimp crowd near the hot water but not too close, eat bacteria… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vent shrimp crowd near the hot water but not too close, eat bacteria that grow on them, and have eye spots on their backs that may sense the dim glow of vents. Who acts: bacteria, eye spots, vents. A sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life wit
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# Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 15

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Vent shrimp crowd near the hot water but not too close, eat bacteria that grow on them, and have eye spots on their backs that may sense the dim glow of vents.

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**Who acts:** bacteria, eye spots, vents · **What happens:** eat, grow, have, sense, glow · **To what, where:** bacteria, eye spots, backs, dim glow

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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 (bacteria, eye spots, vents), 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:15
# text = Vent shrimp crowd near the hot water but not too close, eat bacteria that grow on them, and have eye spots on their backs that may sense the dim glow of vents.
# 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	Vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sense	sense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vents	vent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | infinitive |  | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | bacteria |  |  |  |  | on eggs *= egg* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 3 | **have** | present |  | eye spots |  | eggs's backs |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 4 | **sense** | may | eye spots | the dim glow of vents |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus |
| 5 | **glow** |  | vents |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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