--- title: The secret is bacteria that make food from chemicals in the vent wat… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The secret is bacteria that make food from chemicals in the vent water instead of from sunlight, so the whole town lives on chemical food, like a kitchen run on a gas pipe instead of a sunny window. Who acts: secret, bacteria, whole town. 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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 (secret, bacteria, whole town), 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:2 # text = The secret is bacteria that make food from chemicals in the vent water instead of from sunlight, so the whole town lives on chemical food, like a kitchen run on a gas pipe instead of a sunny window. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 vent vent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 21 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 22 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 chemical chemical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod 36 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 40 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 36 fixed _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the secret | bacteria | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | bacteria | food | | chemicals in the vent water | | instead sunlight and kitchen run | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material | | 3 | **live** | present | the whole town | | | chemical food | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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