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title: Lights on the belly match the faint light coming from above, so a hu… — The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lights on the belly match the faint light coming from above, so a hunter looking up from below cannot see the animal's dark shape. Who acts: Lights, faint light, hunter. A sentence of the lesson «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth» of the biology course
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# The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey on Earth, sentence 9

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Lights on the belly match the faint light coming from above, so a hunter looking up from below cannot see the animal's dark shape.

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**Who acts:** Lights, faint light, hunter · **What happens:** match, come, look up, not see · **To what, where:** faint light, dark shape

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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 (Lights, faint light, hunter), 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:9
# text = Lights on the belly match the faint light coming from above, so a hunter looking up from below cannot see the animal's dark shape.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	match	match	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	above	above	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	below	below	ADV	RB	_	16	obl	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **match** | present | Lights on the belly | the faint light |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the faint light *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from above=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | a hunter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from below=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **see** | can | a hunter | the animal's dark shape |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus |

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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:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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