Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches, sentence 13

Scientists filmed in 2024 that moths turn their backs to the brightest light to tell which way is up, so near a lamp they circle and get stuck; warm-coloured street lights trap fewer moths.

Who acts: Scientists, moths, way, warm coloured street lights · What happens: film, turn, tell, be, circle, get · To what, where: 2024, backs, brightest light, way, lamp, fewer moths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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 (Scientists, moths, way, warm coloured street lights), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 filmed	nsubj
2	filmed	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 2024	case
4	2024	2024	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 filmed	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 turn	mark
6	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 filmed	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 backs	nmod:poss
9	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 light	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 light	det
12	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 light	amod
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 tell	mark
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 turn	advcl
16	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 up	cop
19	up	up	ADV	_	17 way	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 circle	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 circle	advmod
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 lamp	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lamp	det
24	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 circle	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 circle	nsubj
26	circle	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 get	cc
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 circle	conj
29	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 trap	punct
31	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lights	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 warm	punct
33	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lights	amod
34	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lights	compound
35	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 trap	nsubj
36	trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Scientists	parataxis
37	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 moths	amod
38	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 trap	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 filmed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	film	past	Scientists		2024		tree rules
2	turn	present	moths	moths's backs	the brightest light		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to light=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	moths not said here	which way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
4	is	present	which way not said here			up property	tree rules
5	circle	present	moths = moth		a lamp		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	get	infinitive	moths = moth not said here			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	trap	present	warm coloured street lights	fewer moths			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Patient

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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:13.

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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