--- title: Moths get confused by lamps; a 2024 study reported that they turn th… — Butterflies, moths and ladybirds · tree and pragmatics description: Moths get confused by lamps; a 2024 study reported that they turn their backs towards the brightest light, as they would towards the sky, and so circle it. Who acts: Moths, 2024 study. 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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 (Moths, 2024 study), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:9 # text = Moths get confused by lamps; a 2024 study reported that they turn their backs towards the brightest light, as they would towards the sky, and so circle it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.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 1 Moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 confused confused ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 24 towards towards ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 circle circle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | Moths | | | | | confused *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **report** | past | a 2024 study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | present | Moths *= moth* | Moths's backs | | the brightest light | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme towards light=Trajectory | | 4 | **circle** | infinitive | Moths *= moth* *not said here* | study | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | 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:219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds.lesson:9`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/8/) - next →: [Butterflies, moths and ladybirds, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/219-butterflies-moths-and-ladybirds/)