--- title: Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards t… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards the lights instead of the moonlit sea. Who acts: Bright beach lights, turtle hatchlings. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» of the bi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/8/) [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/) / [Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/) / 8 # Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 8 Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards the lights instead of the moonlit sea. **Who acts:** Bright beach lights, turtle hatchlings · **What happens:** confuse, crawl · **To what, where:** turtle hatchlings, lights This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (Bright beach lights, turtle hatchlings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:8 # text = Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards the lights instead of the moonlit sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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 ×1 1 Bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 confuse confuse VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 hatchlings hatchling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 crawl crawl VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 13 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 17 case _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 moonlit moonlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confuse** | present | Bright beach lights | turtle hatchlings | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Patient | | 2 | **crawl** | present | turtle hatchlings | | | the lights | | instead the moonlit sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination | 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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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 ×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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