--- title: Many night animals have a shiny layer at the back of the eye that bo… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: Many night animals have a shiny layer at the back of the eye that bounces light back, so their eyes glow in a torch beam; bright light can hurt and stress them. Who acts: Many night animals, eye, eyes, bright light. 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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 (Many night animals, eye, eyes, bright light), 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:14 # text = Many night animals have a shiny layer at the back of the eye that bounces light back, so their eyes glow in a torch beam; bright light can hurt and stress them. # 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 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 shiny shiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bounces bounce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 stress stress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Many night animals | a shiny layer | | the back of the eye | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | | 2 | **bounce back** | present | the eye | light | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Agent | | 3 | **glow** | present | eyes's eyes | | | a torch beam | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beam=Location | | 4 | **hurt** | can | bright light | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stress** | infinitive | bright light *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | 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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.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): 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. 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