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title: So the deep is full of clever tricks: an anglerfish dangles a glowin… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the deep is full of clever tricks: an anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth like a fishing rod, and a gulper eel has a mouth so big it can swallow a meal almost its own size. Who acts: deep, anglerfish, gulper eel, eel. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant 
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 1

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So the deep is full of clever tricks: an anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth like a fishing rod, and a gulper eel has a mouth so big it can swallow a meal almost its own size.

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**Who acts:** deep, anglerfish, gulper eel, eel · **What happens:** be, dangle, glow, have, swallow · **To what, where:** glowing lure, front, mouth, meal

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 (deep, anglerfish, gulper eel, eel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:1
# text = So the deep is full of clever tricks: an anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth like a fishing rod, and a gulper eel has a mouth so big it can swallow a meal almost its own size.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det
11	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	dangles	dangle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	gulper	gulper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obl
44	.	.	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 | **is** | present | the deep |  |  |  |  | of clever tricks; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dangle** | present | a anglerfish | a glowing lure |  | front of anglerfish's mouth |  | like a fishing rod | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lure=Theme in front=Destination |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | a gulper eel | a mouth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 5 | **swallow** | can | eel | a meal |  |  |  |  | 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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:1`.

**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 ×2, 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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