The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 3

In the dark deep-sea gallery, fish glow with their own light, because far down where sunlight never reaches, making light is the only way to be seen.

Who acts: fish, sunlight, making · What happens: glow, not reach, make, be, see, light · To what, where: dark sea gallery, light, only way

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (fish, sunlight, making), 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	In	in	ADP	_	7 gallery	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gallery	det
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gallery	amod
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sea	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gallery	compound
7	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glow	punct
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glow	nsubj
10	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 light	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 light	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 light	amod
14	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glow	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 way	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 way	mark
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 way	advmod
18	down	down	ADP	_	22 reaches	mark
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 reaches	advmod
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reaches	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 reaches	advmod
22	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 far	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 far	punct
24	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 way	csubj
25	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 way	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glow	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 seen	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 seen	aux:pass
32	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 way	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 glow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glow	present	fish		the dark sea gallery	with fish's own light	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme
2	not reach	present	sunlight				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	gerund		light			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product
4	is a	present	making	the only way		far property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive · passive	fish not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
6	light		fish				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:3.

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 ×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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