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title: The dim light is red, because many night animals cannot see red well… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics
description: The dim light is red, because many night animals cannot see red well, so you can watch them without them feeling watched. Who acts: dim light, many night animals, you, lights. A sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wi
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# The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 1

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The dim light is red, because many night animals cannot see red well, so you can watch them without them feeling watched.

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**Who acts:** dim light, many night animals, you, lights · **What happens:** be, not see, watch, feel · **To what, where:** red, animals

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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 (dim light, many night animals, you, lights), 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:1
# text = The dim light is red, because many night animals cannot see red well, so you can watch them without them feeling watched.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **is** | present | the dim light |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | many night animals | red |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | can | you | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **feel** | gerund | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **watch** | participle | lights *= light* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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**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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:1`.

**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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