Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 11
A platypus closes its eyes, ears and nose underwater and finds shrimps and worms with the electric and touch sensors in its soft bill.
Who acts: platypus · What happens: close, find, bill · To what, where: eyes, shrimps, soft bill
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 (platypus), 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 | 2 platypus | det |
| 2 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closes | nsubj |
| 3 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closes | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ears | punct |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eyes | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nose | cc |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eyes | conj |
| 10 | underwater | underwater | ADV | _ | 3 closes | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 finds | cc |
| 12 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 closes | conj |
| 13 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 finds | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worms | cc |
| 15 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shrimps | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sensors | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sensors | det |
| 18 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sensors | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sensors | cc |
| 20 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 electric | conj |
| 21 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 finds | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bill | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bill | nmod:poss |
| 24 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bill | amod |
| 25 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | a platypus | platypus's eyes and ears and nose | underwater property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | find | present | a platypus not said here | shrimps and worms | platypus's soft bill | with the electric sensors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | ||
| 3 | bill | platypus | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:11.
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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