--- title: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, and scientists ar… — The desert: living with little water · tree and pragmatics description: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, and scientists are still not sure why; of more than 2,000 kinds, only a few dozen have venom dangerous to people, but none should be picked up. Who acts: Scorpions, scientists, few dozen. 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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 (Scorpions, scientists, few dozen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:005-the-desert.lesson:14 # text = Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, and scientists are still not sure why; of more than 2,000 kinds, only a few dozen have venom dangerous to people, but none should be picked up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 005-the-desert.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 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 NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 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 , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 21 advmod _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 2,000 2000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 dozen dozen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 29 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ _ 39 up up ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 . . 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 | **glow** | present | Scorpions | blue green | | ultraviolet light | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | still | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a few dozen of 2,000 kinds | venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 4 | **pick up** | should · passive | | none | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:005-the-desert.lesson:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The desert: living with little water, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/13/) - next →: [The desert: living with little water, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/)