Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 12

Elephantnose fish make a weak electric field around themselves and read it with their long chins to find food in dark, muddy African rivers.

Who acts: Elephantnose fish · What happens: make, read, find · To what, where: weak electric field, field, food, dark muddy African rivers

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 (Elephantnose fish), 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	Elephantnose	elephantnose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fish	compound
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 field	det
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
6	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 field	amod
7	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 make	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 read	cc
11	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 read	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 chins	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chins	nmod:poss
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chins	amod
16	chins	chin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 read	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 read	advcl
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	25 rivers	case
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rivers	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct
23	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rivers	amod
24	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rivers	amod
25	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 find	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Elephantnose fish	a weak electric field		around sensors = sensor	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product
2	read	present	Elephantnose fish not said here	field		with sensors's long chins	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	find	to-infinitive	Elephantnose fish not said here	food	dark muddy African rivers		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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, 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:12.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. 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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