Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 0

Every living animal makes tiny electric signals: each heartbeat and each twitch of a muscle sends out a weak electric buzz into the water around it.

Who acts: living animal, heartbeat · What happens: make, send out, twitch · To what, where: tiny electric signals, weak electric buzz, water, muscle

This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» 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 (living animal, heartbeat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 animal	det
2	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
6	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signals	amod
7	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 sends	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 heartbeat	det
10	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sends	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 twitch	cc
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 twitch	det
13	twitch	twitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heartbeat	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 muscle	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 muscle	det
16	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 twitch	nmod
17	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	parataxis
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 sends	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 buzz	det
20	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 buzz	amod
21	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 buzz	amod
22	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sends	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sends	obl
26	around	around	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 water	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make	present	every living animal	tiny electric signals		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Product
2	send out	present	each heartbeat and each twitch of a muscle	a weak electric buzz	the water around animal	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buzz=Theme
3	twitch			a muscle		nom twitch «state transitive»: of=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, 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:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.lesson:0.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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