--- title: In Romania there is even a cave sealed off for millions of years whe… — Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworm… · tree and pragmatics description: In Romania there is even a cave sealed off for millions of years where the air smells of rotten eggs, and the whole food chain starts with bacteria eating chemicals instead of sunlight. Who acts: cave, air, whole food chain. 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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 (cave, air, whole food chain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:3 # text = In Romania there is even a cave sealed off for millions of years where the air smells of rotten eggs, and the whole food chain starts with bacteria eating chemicals instead of sunlight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Romania Romania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 3 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 4 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 8 sealed seal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 with with SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 34 case _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a cave | | | Romania; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in romania=Location | | 2 | **seal off** | participle | | a cave *not said here* | | | | for millions of years | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **smell** | present | the air | | | | | of rotten eggs | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of egg=Theme | | 4 | **start** | present | the whole food chain | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | the whole food chain *not said here* | chemicals | | | | instead sunlight | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chemical=Patient | 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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:3`. **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): no change. **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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