Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 8

Electric eels use weak pulses to sense what is around them and strong shocks to stun prey and scare enemies, and even young eels can give a tingle.

Who acts: Electric eels, young eels · What happens: use, sense, be, stun, scare, give · To what, where: weak pulses, prey, enemies, tingle

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, young 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	3 use	nsubj
3	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pulses	amod
5	pulses	pulse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sense	mark
7	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	advcl
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 them	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 them	cop
10	around	around	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sense	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shocks	cc
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shocks	amod
14	shocks	shock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 them	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stun	mark
16	stun	stun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shocks	acl
17	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stun	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scare	cc
19	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stun	conj
20	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 scare	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 give	cc
23	even	even	ADV	_	25 eels	advmod
24	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eels	amod
25	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 give	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 give	aux
27	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 use	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tingle	det
29	tingle	tingle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 use	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present	Electric eels	weak pulses		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Patient
2	sense	to-infinitive	Electric eels not said here			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present			around pulses = pulse	tree rules
4	stun	to-infinitive		prey		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prey=Experiencer
5	scare	infinitive		enemies		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer
6	give	can	young eels	a tingle		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tingle=Theme

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:8.

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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