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title: Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night. — Buses, trains and being seen · tree and pragmatics
description: Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night. Who acts: Fluorescent colours. A sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Buses, trains and being seen, sentence 17

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Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night.

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**Who acts:** Fluorescent colours · **What happens:** show up, do · **To what, where:** daylight

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Buses, trains and being seen» of the everyday 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 (Fluorescent colours), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:17
# text = Fluorescent colours show up best in daylight and do little at night.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.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	Fluorescent	fluorescent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **show up** | present | Fluorescent colours |  |  | daylight |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location |
| 2 | **do** | present | Fluorescent colours *not said here* |  |  |  | night | little *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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:everyday:043-buses-trains-and-being-seen.lesson:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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