Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 15
The Guiana dolphin has small pits on its snout, left where its baby whiskers were, that feel electric fields; it was the first dolphin found with this sense, in 2011.
Who acts: Guiana dolphin, baby whiskers, small pits, dolphin · What happens: have, leave, be, feel, find · To what, where: small pits, snout, electric fields, first dolphin, 2011
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 (Guiana dolphin, baby whiskers, small pits, dolphin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dolphin | det |
| 2 | Guiana | Guiana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dolphin | compound |
| 3 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pits | amod |
| 6 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 snout | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 snout | nmod:poss |
| 9 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pits | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 pits | acl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 were | advmod |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whiskers | compound |
| 15 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 feel | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 feel | nsubj |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pits | acl:relcl |
| 20 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fields | amod |
| 21 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feel | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 dolphin | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dolphin | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dolphin | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dolphin | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 dolphin | amod |
| 27 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | parataxis |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 dolphin | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sense | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 sense | det |
| 31 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 2011 | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 2011 | case |
| 34 | 2011 | 2011 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 found | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Guiana dolphin | small pits | dolphin's snout | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | small pits not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | dolphin's baby whiskers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | feel | present | small pits | electric fields | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | dolphin | the first dolphin | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | participle | the first dolphin not said here | 2011 | with this sense | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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:15.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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