Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 6

Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemical in their outer layer; scientists are not sure why, but they use UV lamps to find scorpions at night.

Who acts: Scorpions, scientists · What happens: glow, not be, use, find · To what, where: ultraviolet light, UV lamps, scorpions

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (Scorpions, scientists), 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	Scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glow	nsubj
2	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 green	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 blue	punct
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glow	xcomp
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glow	obl
9	because	because	ADP	_	12 chemical	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 because	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chemical	det
12	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glow	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 layer	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 layer	nmod:poss
15	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 layer	amod
16	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chemical	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 sure	punct
18	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sure	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 sure	advmod
21	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glow	parataxis
22	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sure	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 use	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 use	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 use	nsubj
26	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sure	ccomp
27	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	28 lamps	compound
28	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 use	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 use	advcl
31	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 find	obj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	Scorpions		ultraviolet light		because a chemical in lives's outer layer; green property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location
2	not is	present	scientists				sure property	tree rules
3	use	present	scientists = scientist	UV lamps				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
4	find	to-infinitive	scientists = scientist not said here	scorpions		night		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:6.

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 ×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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