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title: In this twilight zone many animals make their own light, with rows o… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: In this twilight zone many animals make their own light, with rows of tiny lamps on their bellies, glowing clouds they squirt at enemies, or flashes like a torch switched on and off. Who acts: many animals, animals. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 1

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In this twilight zone many animals make their own light, with rows of tiny lamps on their bellies, glowing clouds they squirt at enemies, or flashes like a torch switched on and off.

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**Who acts:** many animals, animals · **What happens:** make, glow, squirt, switch on, light · **To what, where:** own light, twilight zone, glowing clouds, enemies, torch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» 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 (many animals, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.lesson:1
# text = In this twilight zone many animals make their own light, with rows of tiny lamps on their bellies, glowing clouds they squirt at enemies, or flashes like a torch switched on and off.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	squirt	squirt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obl
33	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	conj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | many animals | animals's own light or flashes like a torch |  | this twilight zone |  | with rows of tiny lamps on animals's bellies and glowing clouds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **squirt** | present | animals *= animal* | glowing clouds *not said here* |  | enemies |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme at enemy=Destination |
| 4 | **switch on** | participle |  | a torch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **light** |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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