Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 14
A bumblebee can feel a flower's weak electric charge, which changes for a while after another bee visits, so the bee may skip a flower that was just emptied.
Who acts: bumblebee, weak electric charge, bee, flower · What happens: feel, change, visit, skip, empty, charge · To what, where: weak electric charge, flower
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 (bumblebee, weak electric charge, bee, flower), 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 bumblebee | det |
| 2 | bumblebee | bumblebee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 flower | case |
| 8 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charge | amod |
| 9 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 charge | amod |
| 10 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 changes | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 changes | nsubj |
| 13 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 charge | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 changes | obl |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 visits | mark |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 bee | det |
| 19 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visits | nsubj |
| 20 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 changes | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 skip | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 skip | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bee | det |
| 24 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skip | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 skip | aux |
| 26 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 flower | det |
| 28 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 skip | obj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 emptied | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 emptied | aux:pass |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 emptied | advmod |
| 32 | emptied | empty | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 flower | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | can | a bumblebee | a flower's weak electric charge | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | present | a flower's weak electric charge | while | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | visit | present | another bee | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | skip | may | the bee | a flower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Agent | ||||
| 5 | empty | past · passive | a flower | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||||
| 6 | charge | a flower | nom charge «act 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:14.
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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