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title: Sunlight gets weaker as you go deeper; below about two hundred metre… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sunlight gets weaker as you go deeper; below about two hundred metres it is very dim, and below about a thousand metres there is no sunlight at all. Who acts: Sunlight, you. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» of the biology co
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 4

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Sunlight gets weaker as you go deeper; below about two hundred metres it is very dim, and below about a thousand metres there is no sunlight at all.

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**Who acts:** Sunlight, you · **What happens:** get, go, be · **To what, where:** hundred metres, thousand metres

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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 (Sunlight, you), 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:4
# text = Sunlight gets weaker as you go deeper; below about two hundred metres it is very dim, and below about a thousand metres there is no sunlight at all.
# 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 ×3
1	Sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	below	below	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nummod
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	below	below	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Sunlight |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | sunlight |  |  | hundred metres |  | dim *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | no sunlight at all |  |  | thousand metres; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below metre=Location |

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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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**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:4`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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