--- title: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemi… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemical in their outer shell; scientists are not sure why, and they find scorpions at night with UV torches. Who acts: Scorpions, scientists. 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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 (Scorpions, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:9 # text = Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemical in their outer shell; scientists are not sure why, and they find scorpions at night with UV torches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 ×2 1 Scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 glow glow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 ultraviolet ultraviolet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 because because ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 22 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 scorpions scorpion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 UV ultra-violet NOUN NN Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 torches torch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **glow** | present | Scorpions | blue green | | ultraviolet light | | because a chemical in tarantulas's outer shell | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | scientists | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | present | scientists *= scientist* | scorpions | | | night | with UV torches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Topic | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:9`. **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 ×2. **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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