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title: Near hot springs on the deep sea floor, found in 1977, food chains s… — Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Near hot springs on the deep sea floor, found in 1977, food chains start with bacteria that make food from chemicals instead of sunlight; giant tube worms have no mouth and live on such bacteria inside them. Who acts: food chains, bacteria, giant tube worms. A sentence of the lesson «Food chains: su
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# Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters, sentence 14

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Near hot springs on the deep sea floor, found in 1977, food chains start with bacteria that make food from chemicals instead of sunlight; giant tube worms have no mouth and live on such bacteria inside them.

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**Who acts:** food chains, bacteria, giant tube worms · **What happens:** find, start, make, have, live · **To what, where:** hot springs, 1977, food, chemicals, mouth, such bacteria

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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 (food chains, bacteria, giant tube worms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:046-food-chains.lesson:14
# text = Near hot springs on the deep sea floor, found in 1977, food chains start with bacteria that make food from chemicals instead of sunlight; giant tube worms have no mouth and live on such bacteria inside them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 046-food-chains.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle · passive |  | hot springs on the deep sea floor |  | 1977 |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **start** | present | food chains |  |  |  |  | with bacteria | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bacterium=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **make** | present | bacteria | food |  | chemicals |  | instead sunlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset food=Product from chemical=Material |
| 4 | **have** | present | giant tube worms | no mouth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | present | giant tube worms *not said here* |  |  | such bacteria |  | inside worms *= worm* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bacteria=Location |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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