--- title: The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunt… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics description: The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface. Who acts: animals, darkness, hunters. 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 --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 8 The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface. **Who acts:** animals, darkness, hunters · **What happens:** rise, hide, find · **To what, where:** animals, hunters, food, surface 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 (animals, darkness, hunters), 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:8 # text = The animals rise only at night because darkness hides them from hunters that find food by sight near the surface. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rise rise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hunters hunter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | present | the animals | | | | night | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hide** | present | darkness | animals *= animal* | | hunters | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from hunter=Beneficiary | | 3 | **find** | present | hunters | food | | the surface | | by sight | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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:8`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/7/) - next →: [The twilight zone: barreleyes, lantern…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/175-the-twilight-zone-barreleyes-lanternfish-and-the-biggest-daily-journey-on-earth/)