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title: Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a l… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light. Who acts: sea shrimp. 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 with its depen
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 12

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Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.

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**Who acts:** sea shrimp · **What happens:** squirt, glow, confuse, make · **To what, where:** glowing cloud, hunter

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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 (sea shrimp), 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:12
# text = Some deep-sea shrimp squirt a glowing cloud to confuse a hunter, a little like squid ink but made of light.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	squirt	squirt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	confuse	confuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:acl
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **squirt** | present | some sea shrimp | a glowing cloud and squid ink |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confuse** | to-infinitive | some sea shrimp *not said here* | a hunter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunter=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | participle | some sea shrimp *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of light | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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