--- title: The ocean is a building of floors made of water: the sunlit zone in… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: The ocean is a building of floors made of water: the sunlit zone in the top 200 metres, where there is enough light for plankton to grow, and below it ever darker floors down to the black deep, where the only light is made by animals themselves. Who acts: ocean, enough light, animals. 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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 (ocean, enough light, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:0 # text = The ocean is a building of floors made of water: the sunlit zone in the top 200 metres, where there is enough light for plankton to grow, and below it ever darker floors down to the black deep, where the only light is made by animals themselves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 008-the-ocean.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 sunlit sunlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 24 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 below below ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:nsubj 34 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ _ 35 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 amod _ _ 36 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 37 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 deep deep NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 48 advmod _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux:pass _ _ 48 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl:agent _ _ 51 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 50 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:appos 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 ocean | a building | | | | of floors; the sunlit zone in the top 200 metres *nmod* | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | participle | | floors *not said here* | | | | of water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **be** | present | enough light for plankton | | | there | | down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | enough light for plankton *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | animals animals | the only light | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | 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:008-the-ocean.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/18/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)