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title: Huge numbers of animals swim up from the deep at night to feed near… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Huge numbers of animals swim up from the deep at night to feed near the surface and go back down at dawn, and this daily migration is the biggest movement of animals on Earth. Who acts: Huge numbers, daily migration. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the bigges
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 7

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Huge numbers of animals swim up from the deep at night to feed near the surface and go back down at dawn, and this daily migration is the biggest movement of animals on Earth.

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**Who acts:** Huge numbers, daily migration · **What happens:** swim up, feed, go back, be · **To what, where:** deep, surface, biggest movement

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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 (Huge numbers, daily migration), 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:7
# text = Huge numbers of animals swim up from the deep at night to feed near the surface and go back down at dawn, and this daily migration is the biggest movement of animals on Earth.
# 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): no change
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim up** | present | Huge numbers of animals |  |  | the deep | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from deep=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | Huge numbers of animals *not said here* |  |  | the surface |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go back** | infinitive | Huge numbers of animals *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this daily migration | the biggest movement |  |  |  | of animals on Earth | 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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**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:7`.

**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): no change. **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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