---
title: Below about 150 to 200 metres the Black Sea has almost no oxygen and… — Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Below about 150 to 200 metres the Black Sea has almost no oxygen and is full of a gas that smells of rotten eggs, and shipwrecks over 2,000 years old have been found there almost whole because no worms eat the wood. Who acts: Black Sea, gas, worms. A sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/15/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/) / 15

# Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 15

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Below about 150 to 200 metres the Black Sea has almost no oxygen and is full of a gas that smells of rotten eggs, and shipwrecks over 2,000 years old have been found there almost whole because no worms eat the wood.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Black Sea, gas, worms · **What happens:** have, be, smell, find, eat · **To what, where:** 150 200 metres, shipwrecks, wood

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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 (Black Sea, gas, worms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:15
# text = Below about 150 to 200 metres the Black Sea has almost no oxygen and is full of a gas that smells of rotten eggs, and shipwrecks over 2,000 years old have been found there almost whole because no worms eat the wood.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.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 ×2
1	Below	below	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:case
5	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	_	9	compound	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shipwrecks	shipwreck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	2,000	2000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod
36	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
38	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Black Sea | 150 200 metres |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Black Sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a gas; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smell** | present | a gas |  |  |  |  | of rotten eggs | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of egg=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | shipwrecks |  | there |  | whole *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **eat** | present | no worms | the wood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:15`.

**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 ×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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/14/)
- next →: [Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelican…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/16/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/)

