--- title: A siphonophore looks like one long jellyfish but is a chain of many… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics description: A siphonophore looks like one long jellyfish but is a chain of many tiny animals living together, and some are longer than a blue whale. Who acts: siphonophore, many tiny animals, some. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/) / 14 # The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 14 A siphonophore looks like one long jellyfish but is a chain of many tiny animals living together, and some are longer than a blue whale. **Who acts:** siphonophore, many tiny animals, some · **What happens:** look, be, live together · **To what, where:** chain 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 (siphonophore, many tiny animals, some), 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:14 # text = A siphonophore looks like one long jellyfish but is a chain of many tiny animals living together, and some are longer than a blue whale. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 siphonophore siphonophore NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 acl _ _ 17 together together ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a siphonophore | | | | | like one long jellyfish | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | a siphonophore *not said here* | a chain | | | | of many tiny animals | tree rules | | 3 | **live together** | gerund | many tiny animals *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | some | | | | | than a blue whale; long *property* | tree rules | 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:14`. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/13/) - next →: [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/15/) - ↑ 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/)