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title: Lanternfish have light organs called photophores along their bodies,… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lanternfish have light organs called photophores along their bodies, and they are among the most common fish on Earth; only the tiny bristlemouths may be more numerous. Who acts: Lanternfish, light organs, tiny bristlemouths. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 6

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Lanternfish have light organs called photophores along their bodies, and they are among the most common fish on Earth; only the tiny bristlemouths may be more numerous.

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**Who acts:** Lanternfish, light organs, tiny bristlemouths · **What happens:** have, call, be · **To what, where:** light organs, photophores, Earth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lanternfish, light organs, tiny bristlemouths), 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:6
# text = Lanternfish have light organs called photophores along their bodies, and they are among the most common fish on Earth; only the tiny bristlemouths may be more numerous.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Lanternfish	lanternfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	photophores	photophore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	xcomp	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bristlemouths	bristlemouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## 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 | Lanternfish | light organs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | light organs *not said here* | photophores along Lanternfish's bodies |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | Lanternfish |  |  | Earth |  | among the common fish | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | may | the tiny bristlemouths |  |  |  |  | numerous *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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

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