The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 1

The dim light is red, because many night animals cannot see red well, so you can watch them without them feeling watched.

Who acts: dim light, many night animals, you, lights · What happens: be, not see, watch, feel · To what, where: red, animals

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 (dim light, many night animals, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 light	det
2	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 red	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 red	cop
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 see	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 animals	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animals	compound
10	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 see	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 red	advcl
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 see	obj
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 red	fixed
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 watch	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	20 watch	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 watch	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 watch	aux
20	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	parataxis
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 watch	obj
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 feeling	mark
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feeling	nsubj
24	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 watch	advcl
25	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 feeling	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 red	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dim light		red property	tree rules
2	not see	can	many night animals	red		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus
3	watch	can	you	animals = animal		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	feel	gerund	lights = light			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	watch	participle	lights = light not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:1.

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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