--- title: The sunlit zone is the top 200 metres of the ocean, where there is e… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: The sunlit zone is the top 200 metres of the ocean, where there is enough light for plant-like plankton to grow, and ocean plankton make about half the oxygen in our air. Who acts: sunlit zone, enough light, ocean plankton. 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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 (sunlit zone, enough light, ocean plankton), 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:5 # text = The sunlit zone is the top 200 metres of the ocean, where there is enough light for plant-like plankton to grow, and ocean plankton make about half the oxygen in our air. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sunlit sunlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 zone zone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 plankton plankton NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 plankton plankton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the sunlit zone | the top 200 metres | | | | of the ocean | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | enough light for like plankton | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | enough light for like plankton *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | ocean plankton | half oxygen | | our air | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=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:5`. **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 ×1, 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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/4/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)