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title: Deep-sea anglerfish have a glowing lure on their heads to attract pr… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep-sea anglerfish have a glowing lure on their heads to attract prey, and in many kinds the light comes from glowing bacteria living inside the lure; many kinds are smaller than a football. Who acts: sea anglerfish, light, glowing bacteria, many kinds. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: angl
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 4

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Deep-sea anglerfish have a glowing lure on their heads to attract prey, and in many kinds the light comes from glowing bacteria living inside the lure; many kinds are smaller than a football.

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**Who acts:** sea anglerfish, light, glowing bacteria, many kinds · **What happens:** have, glow, attract, come, live, be · **To what, where:** glowing lure, heads, prey, many kinds, lure

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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 (sea anglerfish, light, glowing bacteria, many kinds), 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:4
# text = Deep-sea anglerfish have a glowing lure on their heads to attract prey, and in many kinds the light comes from glowing bacteria living inside the lure; many kinds are smaller than a football.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
14	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	amod	_	_
25	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **have** | present | sea anglerfish | a glowing lure |  | people's heads |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lure=Patient |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive | sea anglerfish *not said here* | prey |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present | the light |  |  | many kinds |  | from glowing bacteria | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bacteria=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | glowing bacteria *not said here* |  |  | the lure |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lure=Location |
| 7 | **is** | present | many kinds |  |  |  |  | than a football; small *property* | 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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**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, R6-punct-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.

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