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title: Night animals sleep by day in burrows, tree holes and dark corners,… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics
description: Night animals sleep by day in burrows, tree holes and dark corners, guided by their body clock; animals most active at dawn and dusk, like rabbits and deer, are called crepuscular. Who acts: Night animals. A sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» of the biology cour
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# The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 17

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Night animals sleep by day in burrows, tree holes and dark corners, guided by their body clock; animals most active at dawn and dusk, like rabbits and deer, are called crepuscular.

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**Who acts:** Night animals · **What happens:** sleep, guide, call · **To what, where:** burrows, dark corners, rabbits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:17
# text = Night animals sleep by day in burrows, tree holes and dark corners, guided by their body clock; animals most active at dawn and dusk, like rabbits and deer, are called crepuscular.
# 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): no change
1	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	burrows	burrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
30	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
36	crepuscular	crepuscular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **sleep** | present | Night animals |  |  | burrows and tree holes and dark corners | day |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location |
| 2 | **guide** | participle |  | dark corners *not said here* |  |  |  | by animals's body clock | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by clock=Destination |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive |  | rabbits and deer |  |  |  | crepuscular *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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): no change. **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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