The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 6
Lanternfish have light organs called photophores along their bodies, and they are among the most common fish on Earth; only the tiny bristlemouths may be more numerous.
Who acts: Lanternfish, light organs, tiny bristlemouths · What happens: have, call, be · To what, where: light organs, photophores, Earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lanternfish, light organs, tiny bristlemouths), 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 | Lanternfish | lanternfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 organs | amod |
| 4 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 organs | acl |
| 6 | photophores | photophore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 9 bodies | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 photophores | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fish | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fish | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fish | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fish | cop |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 common | advmod |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fish | amod |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Earth | case |
| 20 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fish | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 numerous | punct |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 bristlemouths | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bristlemouths | det |
| 24 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bristlemouths | amod |
| 25 | bristlemouths | bristlemouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 numerous | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 numerous | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 numerous | cop |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 numerous | advmod |
| 29 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 have | parataxis |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | Lanternfish | light organs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | light organs not said here | photophores along Lanternfish's bodies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Lanternfish | Earth | among the common fish | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | may | the tiny bristlemouths | numerous property | tree rules |
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.
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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 ×1, R7-rel-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.
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