Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 17

A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons.

Who acts: real electric shock, muscles, heart, hair · What happens: make, jump, stop, not make, not stand up · To what, where: muscles, heart, hair

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 (real electric shock, muscles, heart, hair), 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	4 shock	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shock	amod
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shock	amod
4	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 makes	obj
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stop	aux
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heart	det
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stop	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 make	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
15	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 make	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 make	advmod
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 make	advmod
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	parataxis
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 stand	compound:prt
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 cartoons	case
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 cartoons	case
24	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stand	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	a real electric shock	muscles		tree rules
2	jump	infinitive	muscles not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	can	a real electric shock not said here	the heart		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality
4	not make	present · do-support	heart	hair		tree rules
5	not stand up	infinitive	hair not said here		like cartoons	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:17.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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