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title: Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence,… — The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence, to find food, lure prey and signal; the anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth. Who acts: Many sea animals, anglerfish, animals. A sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep s
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# The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea, sentence 16

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Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence, to find food, lure prey and signal; the anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth.

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**Who acts:** Many sea animals, anglerfish, animals · **What happens:** make, call, find, dangle, glow, light · **To what, where:** own light, food, glowing lure, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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 (Many sea animals, anglerfish, animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.lesson:16
# text = Many deep-sea animals make their own light, called bioluminescence, to find food, lure prey and signal; the anglerfish dangles a glowing lure in front of its mouth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 092-the-aquarium-jellyfish-octopuses-sea-stars-and-the-deep-sea.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	bioluminescence	bioluminescence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	anglerfish	anglerfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound
25	dangles	dangle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	lure	lure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Many sea animals | animals's own light and called bioluminescence |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Product |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Many sea animals *not said here* | food and lure prey and signal |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 4 | **dangle** | present | the anglerfish | a glowing lure |  | front of anglerfish's mouth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lure=Theme in front=Destination |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **light** |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×2, 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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