--- title: Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat on the top floor and riding back down before sunrise: it is the biggest journey animals make anywhere on Earth, every single day. Who acts: you, whole town, light, animals. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, l --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 3 Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat on the top floor and riding back down before sunrise: it is the biggest journey animals make anywhere on Earth, every single day. **Who acts:** you, whole town, light, animals · **What happens:** think, get, eat, ride back, be, make · **To what, where:** lift, top floor, biggest journey, Earth 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 (you, whole town, light, 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:3 # text = Think of it as the whole town getting in a lift every evening to eat on the top floor and riding back down before sunrise: it is the biggest journey animals make anywhere on Earth, every single day. # 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 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 lift lift NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:obl 26 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 32 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 33 advmod _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 39 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of light; as the whole town | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | gerund | the whole town *not said here* | | | a lift | evening | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the whole town *not said here* | | | the top floor | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **ride back** | gerund | the whole town *not said here* | | | | sunrise | down *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | light | the biggest journey | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | animals | the biggest journey *not said here* | | Earth | day | anywhere *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product | 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:3`. **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. **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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