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title: The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics
description: The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's daytime and bright at night when the zoo is closed, so the night animals are awake when you visit. Who acts: nocturnal house, lights, zoo, night animals. A sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» of
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# The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 0

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The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's daytime and bright at night when the zoo is closed, so the night animals are awake when you visit.

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**Who acts:** nocturnal house, lights, zoo, night animals, you · **What happens:** swap, be, visit · **To what, where:** daytime

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (nocturnal house, lights, zoo, night animals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:0
# text = The nocturnal house swaps day and night: lights are dim in the zoo's daytime and bright at night when the zoo is closed, so the night animals are awake when you visit.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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 ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swaps	swap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	daytime	daytime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	closed	closed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
33	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	35	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **swap** | present | the nocturnal house |  |  |  | day |  | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | lights |  |  | the zoo's daytime |  | dim *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the zoo |  |  |  |  | closed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the night animals |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **visit** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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