The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 0

Dive down and the light fades like evening: below about two hundred metres it is a dim blue twilight, and below about a thousand metres sunlight is gone completely.

Who acts: you, light · What happens: dive down, fade, be, go · To what, where: dim blue twilight, sunlight

This is a sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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 (you, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Dive	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fades	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 light	det
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fades	nsubj
6	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Dive	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 evening	case
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fades	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 below	punct
10	below	below	ADV	_	1 Dive	advmod
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 metres	case
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dive	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 twilight	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 twilight	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 twilight	det
18	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 twilight	amod
19	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 twilight	amod
20	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dive	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
23	below	below	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
24	about	about	ADV	_	26 thousand	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 thousand	det
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 metres	nummod
27	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gone	obl
28	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gone	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux:pass
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dive	parataxis
31	completely	completely	ADV	_	30 gone	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Dive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dive down	imperative	you not said here			about hundred metres; below, down property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about metre=Location
2	fade	present	the light		evening		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	present	light	a dim blue twilight			tree rules
4	go	present · passive		sunlight		thousand metres obl; below, completely property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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, 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:175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.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): R5-strong ×4. 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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