Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 6
Electric eels can give shocks of several hundred volts, about 600 or even more, more than twice the voltage of a home socket in Britain.
Who acts: Electric eels · What happens: give, shock · To what, where: shocks, several hundred volts
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 (Electric eels), 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 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eels | amod |
| 2 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 volts | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 volts | amod |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 volts | nummod |
| 9 | volts | volt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shocks | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 600 | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 600 | advmod |
| 12 | 600 | 600 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 volts | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 600 | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 twice | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 voltage | case |
| 19 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 voltage | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 voltage | det |
| 21 | voltage | voltage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 volts | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 socket | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 socket | det |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 socket | compound |
| 25 | socket | socket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 voltage | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Britain | case |
| 27 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 socket | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | Electric eels | shocks of several hundred volts 600 | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shock | several hundred volts 600 | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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