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title: Deep-sea anglerfish lure prey with a light made by bacteria living i… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep-sea anglerfish lure prey with a light made by bacteria living in the lure, and in some kinds the tiny male fuses onto the much larger female for life. Who acts: sea anglerfish, bacteria, tiny male. A sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» of the biology cour
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# The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 9

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Deep-sea anglerfish lure prey with a light made by bacteria living in the lure, and in some kinds the tiny male fuses onto the much larger female for life.

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**Who acts:** sea anglerfish, bacteria, tiny male · **What happens:** lure, make, live, fuse · **To what, where:** prey, light, lure, kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (sea anglerfish, bacteria, tiny male), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:9
# text = Deep-sea anglerfish lure prey with a light made by bacteria living in the lure, and in some kinds the tiny male fuses onto the much larger female for life.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 008-the-ocean.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	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lure	lure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	_
13	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fuses	fuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
29	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **lure** | present | sea anglerfish | prey |  |  |  | with a light | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | bacteria *not said here* |  |  | the lure |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lure=Location |
| 4 | **fuse** | present | the tiny male |  |  | some kinds |  | onto the larger female; for life | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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:008-the-ocean.lesson:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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