Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 16

People cannot feel other animals' electric fields, but our hearts and brains work with electric signals that doctors measure with an ECG and an EEG.

Who acts: People, hearts, doctors · What happens: not feel, work, measure · To what, where: electric fields, electric signals

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 (People, hearts, doctors), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 feel	advmod
4	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fields	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 animals	case
8	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fields	amod
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feel	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 work	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 work	cc
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hearts	nmod:poss
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 work	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brains	cc
15	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hearts	conj
16	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feel	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 signals	case
18	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 signals	amod
19	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 work	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 measure	obj
21	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 measure	nsubj
22	measure	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 signals	acl:relcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 ECG	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ECG	det
25	ECG	ecg	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 measure	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 EEG	cc
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 EEG	det
28	EEG	eeg	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ECG	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not feel	can	People	other animals's electric fields		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme
2	work	present	our hearts and brains		with electric signals	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with signal=Co-Agent
3	measure	present	doctors	electric signals	with a ECG and a EEG	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme that=Value

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:16.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees/16/