The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 8
The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface.
Who acts: animals, darkness, hunters · What happens: rise, hide, find · To what, where: animals, hunters, food, surface
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 (animals, darkness, hunters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 animals | det |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 rise | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rise | obl |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 hides | mark |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hides | nsubj |
| 9 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rise | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hides | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 hunters | case |
| 12 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hides | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 find | nsubj |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunters | acl:relcl |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 surface | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 surface | det |
| 20 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the animals | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | darkness | animals = animal | hunters | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from hunter=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | find | present | hunters | food | the surface | by sight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
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:8.
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. 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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