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title: Bright lights at night confuse moths and migrating birds, and baby s… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics
description: Bright lights at night confuse moths and migrating birds, and baby sea turtles crawl towards lights instead of towards the sea. Who acts: Bright lights, baby sea turtles. A sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# What a child can do for nature, sentence 14

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Bright lights at night confuse moths and migrating birds, and baby sea turtles crawl towards lights instead of towards the sea.

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**Who acts:** Bright lights, baby sea turtles · **What happens:** confuse, migrate, crawl · **To what, where:** moths, lights

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 lights, baby sea turtles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:14
# text = Bright lights at night confuse moths and migrating birds, and baby sea turtles crawl towards lights instead of towards the sea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl
5	confuse	confuse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	migrating	migrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **confuse** | present | Bright lights at night | moths and migrating birds |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Patient |
| 2 | **migrate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crawl** | present | baby sea turtles |  |  | lights |  | instead the sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination |

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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): 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.

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