--- title: Scientists filmed in 2024 that moths turn their backs to the brighte… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfi… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists filmed in 2024 that moths turn their backs to the brightest light to tell which way is up, so near a lamp they circle and get stuck; warm-coloured street lights trap fewer moths. Who acts: Scientists, moths, way, warm coloured street lights. 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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 (Scientists, moths, way, warm coloured street lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:13 # text = Scientists filmed in 2024 that moths turn their backs to the brightest light to tell which way is up, so near a lamp they circle and get stuck; warm-coloured street lights trap fewer moths. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 filmed film VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 2024 2024 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 16 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 up up ADV RB _ 17 acl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 near near ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lamp lamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 circle circle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 trap trap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 37 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 moths moth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **film** | past | Scientists | | | 2024 | | | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | moths | moths's backs | | the brightest light | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to light=Trajectory | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | moths *not said here* | which way | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | present | which way *not said here* | | | | | up *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **circle** | present | moths *= moth* | | | a lamp | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** | infinitive | moths *= moth* *not said here* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **trap** | present | warm coloured street lights | fewer moths | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Patient | 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:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches.lesson:13`. **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, 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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