Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 4
Water carries electricity well, which is why almost all electric senses belong to animals that live or hunt in water; on land, bees are a rare surprise.
Who acts: Water, rare surprise, electric senses, animals, bees · What happens: carry, be, belong, live, hunt · To what, where: electricity, water, rare surprise, land
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 (Water, rare surprise, electric senses, animals), 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 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | nsubj |
| 2 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | _ | 2 carries | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 why | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 why | cop |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 surprise | advmod |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 all | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 senses | det |
| 11 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 senses | amod |
| 12 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 belong | nsubj |
| 13 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 why | advcl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 belong | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 live | nsubj |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 animals | acl:relcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 hunt | cc |
| 19 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 live | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunt | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 land | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 land | case |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 surprise | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 land | punct |
| 26 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 surprise | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 surprise | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 surprise | det |
| 29 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 surprise | amod |
| 30 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carries | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carries | 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 | carry | present | Water | electricity | well property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | a rare surprise | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | all electric senses | to animals | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | present | animals | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hunt | present | animals not said here | water | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | bees | a rare surprise | land | tree rules |
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:4.
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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