The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 5

Nocturnal houses are dim during the day and lit at night, and many night animals cannot see red light well, so dim red light lets people see them.

Who acts: Nocturnal houses, many night animals, dim red light, people · What happens: be, light, not see, let, see · To what, where: red light, people, 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 (Nocturnal houses, many night animals, dim red light, people), 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	Nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 houses	amod
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dim	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dim	cop
4	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dim	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lit	cc
9	lit	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dim	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 animals	compound
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dim	conj
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 light	amod
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	well	well	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	28 lets	advmod
25	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 light	amod
27	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lets	nsubj
28	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 see	parataxis
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lets	obj
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 lets	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nocturnal houses		day	dim property	tree rules
2	light	participle	Nocturnal houses not said here		night		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not see	can	many night animals	red light		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
4	let	present	dim red light	people			tree rules
5	see	infinitive	people not said here	animals = animal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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:5.

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): no change. 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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