--- title: Shine a torch and eyes glow back at you, because many night animals… — The nocturnal house: night animals by red light · tree and pragmatics description: Shine a torch and eyes glow back at you, because many night animals have a mirror layer at the back of the eye; that is why the keeper asks you to switch it off. Who acts: you, eyes, many night animals, that. 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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 (you, eyes, many night animals, that), 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:3 # text = Shine a torch and eyes glow back at you, because many night animals have a mirror layer at the back of the eye; that is why the keeper asks you to switch it off. # 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 Shine shine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 mirror mirror NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 switch switch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | imperative | you *not said here* | a torch | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | | 2 | **glow back** | present | eyes | | | | | at you | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at you=Location | | 3 | **have** | present | many night animals | a mirror layer | | the back of the eye | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the keeper | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **switch off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the keeper *not said here* | keeper | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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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