--- title: In Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, glowworms, which are fly larvae (yo… — Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworm… · tree and pragmatics description: In Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, glowworms, which are fly larvae (young flies, like maggots), glow to lure insects into sticky threads and make the ceiling look like a starry sky. Who acts: glowworms, ceiling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glowworms, ceiling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:8 # text = In Waitomo Caves in New Zealand, glowworms, which are fly larvae (young flies, like maggots), glow to lure insects into sticky threads and make the ceiling look like a starry sky. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 Waitomo Waitomo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Caves cave PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ _ 6 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 glowworms glowworm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 fly fly NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 larvae larva NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 15 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 flies fly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 appos _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 maggots maggot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 lure lure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp 25 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 threads thread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 starry starry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | glowworms | fly larvae | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **glow** | present | glowworms | | | Waitomo Caves in New Zealand | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | | 3 | **lure** | to-infinitive | glowworms *not said here* | insects | | | | into sticky threads *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent insect=Patient into thread=Result | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | glowworms *not said here* | the ceiling | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | infinitive | the ceiling *not said here* | | | | | like a starry sky | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-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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