The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 10
Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above.
Who acts: Hatchetfish, eyes, food · What happens: have, point, spot, fall · To what, where: thin silver bodies, food
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 (Hatchetfish, eyes, food), 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 | Hatchetfish | hatchetfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bodies | amod |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bodies | compound |
| 5 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lights | punct |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bodies | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bellies | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bellies | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bellies | belly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lights | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eyes | cc |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bodies | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 point | nsubj |
| 15 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | upwards | upward | ADV | _ | 15 point | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spot | mark |
| 18 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 point | advcl |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spot | obj |
| 20 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 food | acl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 above | case |
| 22 | above | above | ADV | _ | 20 falling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hatchetfish | thin silver bodies and lights on Hatchetfish's bellies and eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 2 | point | present | eyes | upward property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spot | to-infinitive | eyes not said here | food | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Destination | ||||
| 4 | fall | gerund | food not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial_Location |
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:10.
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 ×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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