--- title: Many deep-sea animals are red or black, because red light does not r… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Many deep-sea animals are red or black, because red light does not reach the deep, so a red animal looks black and is hard to see; some deep fish even make red light that most other animals cannot see. Who acts: Many sea animals, red light, red animal, most other animals. 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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 (Many sea animals, red light, red animal, most other 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:13 # text = Many deep-sea animals are red or black, because red light does not reach the deep, so a red animal looks black and is hard to see; some deep fish even make red light that most other animals cannot see. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 csubj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 33 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 parataxis _ _ 35 even even ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 obj _ _ 40 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 42 amod _ _ 41 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Many sea animals | | | | | red *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Many sea animals *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **reach** | present · do-support | red light | the deep | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent deep=Theme | | 4 | **look** | present | a red animal | | | | | black *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | present | a red animal *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **see** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **make** | present | | red light | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | | 8 | **not** **see** | can | most other animals | red light | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | 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. 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:13`. **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): R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/12/) - next →: [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/)