--- title: When you snorkel the water looks blue because water soaks up red lig… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: When you snorkel the water looks blue because water soaks up red light first and blue light last, so the deeper you go the bluer and darker it gets, until there is no sunlight at all. Who acts: you, water, sunlight. 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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 (you, water, sunlight), 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:1 # text = When you snorkel the water looks blue because water soaks up red light first and blue light last, so the deeper you go the bluer and darker it gets, until there is no sunlight at all. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 snorkel snorkel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 soaks soak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 conj _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 bluer blue ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:xcomp 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 35 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 36 det _ _ 36 sunlight sunlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **snorkel** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | the water | | | | | blue *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **soak up** | present | water | red light | | | | first *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source | | 4 | **go** | present | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get** | present | water | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **be** | present | no sunlight at all | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:1`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/0/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)