The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 0

The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's daytime and bright at night when the zoo is closed, so the night animals are awake when you visit.

Who acts: nocturnal house, lights, zoo, night animals, you · What happens: swap, be, visit · To what, where: daytime

This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (nocturnal house, lights, zoo, night animals), 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	3 house	det
2	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swaps	nsubj
4	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swaps	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 night	cc
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 dim	punct
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dim	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dim	cop
11	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 swaps	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 daytime	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 zoo	det
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 daytime	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 zoo	case
16	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dim	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bright	cc
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daytime	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 night	case
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bright	obl
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 closed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 zoo	det
23	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 closed	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 closed	cop
25	closed	closed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dim	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 awake	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	32 awake	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 animals	det
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 animals	compound
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 awake	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 awake	cop
32	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dim	conj
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 visit	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 visit	nsubj
35	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 awake	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swaps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	the nocturnal house		day		vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	lights	the zoo's daytime		dim property	tree rules
3	is	present	the zoo			closed property	tree rules
4	is	present	the night animals			awake property	tree rules
5	visit	present	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:0.

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 ×3. 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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