Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 10
A hammerhead shark's wide head spreads its electric sensors over a wider strip of sea floor, like a metal detector sweeping a beach, as it hunts stingrays hidden under the sand.
Who acts: wide head, metal detector, detector · What happens: spread, sweep, hunt, hide · To what, where: electric sensors, wider strip, beach, stingrays, sand
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 (wide head, metal detector, detector), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 2 | hammerhead | hammerhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 shark | case |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 head | amod |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spreads | nsubj |
| 7 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sensors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sensors | amod |
| 10 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spreads | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 strip | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 strip | det |
| 13 | wider | wide | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 strip | amod |
| 14 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spreads | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floor | compound |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strip | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweeping | punct |
| 19 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 23 sweeping | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 detector | det |
| 21 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 detector | compound |
| 22 | detector | detector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeping | nsubj |
| 23 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spreads | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 beach | det |
| 25 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sweeping | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hunts | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 hunts | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hunts | nsubj |
| 29 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spreads | advcl |
| 30 | stingrays | stingray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hunts | obj |
| 31 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 stingrays | acl |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 sand | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sand | det |
| 34 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hidden | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | a hammerhead shark's wide head | shark's electric sensors | a wider strip of sea floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sensor=Theme over strip=Destination | |||
| 2 | sweep | gerund | a metal detector | a beach | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beach=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | detector | stingrays | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stingray=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | stingrays not said here | the sand | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under sand=Location |
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:10.
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. 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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