--- title: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, nobody is quite s… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, nobody is quite sure why, and only a few of the many kinds are dangerous to people. Who acts: Scorpions, nobody, few. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/12/) [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/) / [Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/) / 12 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 12 Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, nobody is quite sure why, and only a few of the many kinds are dangerous to people. **Who acts:** Scorpions, nobody, few · **What happens:** glow, be · **To what, where:** ultraviolet light This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 (Scorpions, nobody, few), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:12 # text = Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, nobody is quite sure why, and only a few of the many kinds are dangerous to people. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 quite quite ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | present | Scorpions | | | ultraviolet light | | green *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | nobody | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a few of the many kinds | | | | | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules | 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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:12`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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