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title: Giant tubeworms have no mouth and no gut; bacteria living inside the… — Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Giant tubeworms have no mouth and no gut; bacteria living inside them make food from chemicals in the vent water, and the worms can grow over two metres long. Who acts: Giant tubeworms, bacteria, worms. A sentence of the lesson «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and lif
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# Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight, sentence 6

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Giant tubeworms have no mouth and no gut; bacteria living inside them make food from chemicals in the vent water, and the worms can grow over two metres long.

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**Who acts:** Giant tubeworms, bacteria, worms · **What happens:** have, live, make, grow · **To what, where:** mouth, 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 (Giant tubeworms, bacteria, worms), 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:6
# text = Giant tubeworms have no mouth and no gut; bacteria living inside them make food from chemicals in the vent water, and the worms can grow over two metres long.
# 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 ×1
1	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tubeworms	tubeworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	vent	vent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	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 | **have** | present | Giant tubeworms | no mouth and no gut |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | bacteria *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside bacteria *= bacterium* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside they=Location |
| 3 | **make** | present | bacteria | food |  | chemicals in the vent water |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material |
| 4 | **grow** | can | the worms |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:6`.

**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 ×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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