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title: Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and ey… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above. Who acts: Hatchetfish, eyes, food. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's p
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 10

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Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above.

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**Who acts:** Hatchetfish, eyes, food · **What happens:** have, point, spot, fall · **To what, where:** thin silver bodies, food

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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 (Hatchetfish, eyes, food), 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:10
# text = Hatchetfish have thin silver bodies, lights on their bellies, and eyes that point upwards to spot food falling from above.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Hatchetfish	hatchetfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
5	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bellies	belly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	upwards	upward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	above	above	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Hatchetfish | thin silver bodies and lights on Hatchetfish's bellies and eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **point** | present | eyes |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spot** | to-infinitive | eyes *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund | food *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial\_Location |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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