Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 5
Our own nerves and heart also run on tiny electric signals, which is why a shock from a socket is so dangerous to us.
Who acts: own nerves · What happens: run, be · To what, where: tiny electric signals, us
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 (own nerves), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nerves | amod |
| 3 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 heart | cc |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nerves | conj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 run | advmod |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 signals | case |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 signals | amod |
| 10 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 signals | amod |
| 11 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 run | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 why | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dangerous | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dangerous | cop |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 dangerous | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shock | det |
| 17 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dangerous | nsubj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 socket | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 socket | det |
| 20 | socket | socket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shock | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dangerous | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 dangerous | advmod |
| 23 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 run | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 dangerous | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Our own nerves and heart | tiny electric signals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on signal=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | us | dangerous property | 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:5.
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.
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