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title: The cockeyed squid has one big eye that looks up and one small eye t… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: The cockeyed squid has one big eye that looks up and one small eye that looks down, and it swims tilted to keep each eye pointing the right way. Who acts: cockeyed squid, one big eye, one small eye, squid. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily jou
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 16

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The cockeyed squid has one big eye that looks up and one small eye that looks down, and it swims tilted to keep each eye pointing the right way.

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**Who acts:** cockeyed squid, one big eye, one small eye, squid, eye · **What happens:** have, look up, look down, swim, tilt, keep · **To what, where:** one big eye, eye, right way

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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 (cockeyed squid, one big eye, one small eye, squid), 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:16
# text = The cockeyed squid has one big eye that looks up and one small eye that looks down, and it swims tilted to keep each eye pointing the right way.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cockeyed	cockeyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	tilted	tilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | the cockeyed squid | one big eye and one small eye |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **look up** | present | one big eye and one small eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **look down** | present | one small eye |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **swim** | present | squid |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **tilt** | participle | squid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | squid *not said here* | each eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **point** | gerund | each eye *not said here* | the right way |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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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