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title: Comb jellies have rows of tiny beating hairs that break light into r… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Comb jellies have rows of tiny beating hairs that break light into rainbow colours; they are not true jellyfish and have no stinging cells. Who acts: Comb jellies, tiny beating hairs, jellies. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 11

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Comb jellies have rows of tiny beating hairs that break light into rainbow colours; they are not true jellyfish and have no stinging cells.

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**Who acts:** Comb jellies, tiny beating hairs, jellies · **What happens:** have, break, not be · **To what, where:** rows, light, rainbow colours, true jellyfish, stinging cells

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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 (Comb jellies, tiny beating hairs, jellies), 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:11
# text = Comb jellies have rows of tiny beating hairs that break light into rainbow colours; they are not true jellyfish and have no stinging cells.
# 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	Comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	jellies	jelly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
24	stinging	stinging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Comb jellies | rows of tiny beating hairs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | present | tiny beating hairs | light |  |  |  | into rainbow colours *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent light=Patient into colour=Result |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | jellies *= jelly* | true jellyfish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | jellies *= jelly* *not said here* | no stinging cells |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |

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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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**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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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