--- title: In the dark each animal has its own trick: the aye-aye taps on wood… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: In the dark each animal has its own trick: the aye-aye taps on wood and listens, bats click and hear echoes, the kiwi sniffs with nostrils at the tip of its beak, the bushbaby gathers light with huge eyes. Who acts: animal, aye aye, bats, kiwi. 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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 (animal, aye aye, bats, kiwi), 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:2 # text = In the dark each animal has its own trick: the aye-aye taps on wood and listens, bats click and hear echoes, the kiwi sniffs with nostrils at the tip of its beak, the bushbaby gathers light with huge eyes. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 12 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 aye aye NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 taps tap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 listens listen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 21 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 click click VERB VB Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 kiwi kiwi NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sniffs sniff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 tip tip NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 bushbaby bushbaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 gathers gather VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 42 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each animal | dark's own trick | | the dark | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient | | 2 | **tap** | present | the aye aye | | | | | on wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient | | 3 | **listen** | present | the aye aye *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **click** | infinitive | bats | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hear** | present | bats *not said here* | echoes | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=Stimulus | | 6 | **sniff** | present | the kiwi | | | | | with nostrils; at the tip of kiwi's beak | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tip=Theme | | 7 | **gather** | present | the bushbaby | light | | | | with huge eyes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent light=Patient with eye=Co-Patient | | 8 | **trick** | | dark | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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