The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 9

Lights on the belly match the faint light coming from above, so a hunter looking up from below cannot see the animal's dark shape.

Who acts: Lights, faint light, hunter · What happens: match, come, look up, not see · To what, where: faint light, dark shape

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 (Lights, faint light, hunter), 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	Lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 match	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 belly	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 belly	det
4	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lights	nmod
5	match	match	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 match	obj
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 light	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 above	case
11	above	above	ADV	_	9 coming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hunter	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	22 see	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hunter	det
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	nsubj
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 hunter	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 looking	compound:prt
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 below	case
19	below	below	ADV	_	16 looking	obl
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 see	advmod
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 match	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 animal	det
24	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shape	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 animal	case
26	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shape	amod
27	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 match	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	match	present	Lights on the belly	the faint light	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient
2	come	gerund	the faint light not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial_Location
3	look up	gerund	a hunter not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from below=Theme
4	not see	can	a hunter	the animal's dark shape	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus

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:9.

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): 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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