The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 2

In the dark each animal has its own trick: the aye-aye taps on wood and listens, bats click and hear echoes, the kiwi sniffs with nostrils at the tip of its beak, the bushbaby gathers light with huge eyes.

Who acts: animal, aye aye, bats, kiwi, bushbaby, dark · What happens: have, tap, listen, click, hear, sniff · To what, where: own trick, dark, echoes, light

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 (animal, aye aye, bats, kiwi), 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	_	3 dark	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dark	det
3	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obl
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 trick	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trick	amod
9	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 taps	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 aye	det
12	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 aye	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 aye	punct
14	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taps	nsubj
15	taps	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 wood	case
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taps	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 listens	cc
19	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 taps	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 click	punct
21	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 click	nsubj
22	click	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hear	cc
24	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 click	conj
25	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hear	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sniffs	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kiwi	det
28	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sniffs	nsubj
29	sniffs	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 nostrils	case
31	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sniffs	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 tip	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tip	det
34	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sniffs	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 beak	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 beak	nmod:poss
37	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tip	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 gathers	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 bushbaby	det
40	bushbaby	bushbaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gathers	nsubj
41	gathers	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	parataxis
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 gathers	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 eyes	case
44	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 eyes	amod
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 gathers	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	each animal	dark's own trick	the dark		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient
2	tap	present	the aye aye			on wood	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient
3	listen	present	the aye aye not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	click	infinitive	bats				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	present	bats not said here	echoes			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=Stimulus
6	sniff	present	the kiwi			with nostrils; at the tip of kiwi's beak	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tip=Theme
7	gather	present	the bushbaby	light		with huge eyes	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent light=Patient with eye=Co-Patient
8	trick		dark				nom trick «act 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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:2.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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