--- title: Caimans' eyes glow red-orange in torchlight because a shiny layer be… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: Caimans' eyes glow red-orange in torchlight because a shiny layer behind the eye reflects light, and guides count caimans by pairs of glowing eyes. Who acts: eyes, shiny layer, guides. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, shiny layer, guides), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:17 # text = Caimans' eyes glow red-orange in torchlight because a shiny layer behind the eye reflects light, and guides count caimans by pairs of glowing eyes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 torchlight torchlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 behind behind ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 reflects reflect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 18 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 guides guide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 caimans caiman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 glowing glow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | present | Caimans's eyes | red orange | | torchlight | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | | 2 | **reflect** | present | a shiny layer behind the eye | light | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **count** | present | guides | caimans | | | | by pairs of glowing eyes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme | | 4 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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