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title: Blobfish look like sad jelly blobs in photos because they are hurt w… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blobfish look like sad jelly blobs in photos because they are hurt when pulled up from the deep, but in their deep home they look like normal fish; a photo of a hurt blobfish once won a vote for the world's ugliest animal. Who acts: Blobfish, photo. A sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfis
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# The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 9

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Blobfish look like sad jelly blobs in photos because they are hurt when pulled up from the deep, but in their deep home they look like normal fish; a photo of a hurt blobfish once won a vote for the world's ugliest animal.

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**Who acts:** Blobfish, photo · **What happens:** look, hurt, pull up, win · **To what, where:** Blobfish, vote

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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 (Blobfish, photo), 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:9
# text = Blobfish look like sad jelly blobs in photos because they are hurt when pulled up from the deep, but in their deep home they look like normal fish; a photo of a hurt blobfish once won a vote for the world's ugliest animal.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Blobfish	Blobfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	jelly	jelly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	blobs	blob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
36	blobfish	blobfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	38	advmod	_	_
38	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	_
44	's	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **look** | present | Blobfish |  |  |  |  | like sad jelly blobs; in photos | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in photo=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | Blobfish |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **pull up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | from the deep | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from deep=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **look** | present | Blobfish |  |  |  |  | like normal fish; in Blobfish's deep home | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in home=Theme |
| 5 | **win** | past | a photo of a hurt blobfish | a vote |  |  |  | for the world's ugliest animal; once *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vote=Theme for animal=Beneficiary |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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.

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