---
title: Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing anima… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward. Who acts: Many deep fish, some, shaped eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/) / 12

# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Many deep fish, some, shaped eyes · **What happens:** have, catch, glow, shape, look · **To what, where:** big eyes, faint light, shaped eyes

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Many deep fish, some, shaped eyes), 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:12
# text = Many deep fish have big eyes to catch faint light from glowing animals, and some have tube-shaped eyes that look upward.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
20	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Many deep fish | big eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Many deep fish *not said here* | faint light |  |  |  | from glowing animals | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent light=Theme from animal=Source |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | some | shaped eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 5 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **look** | present | shaped eyes |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:12`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/11/)
- next →: [The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/13/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/)

