Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 9

Sharks have tiny jelly-filled pores on their snouts, called ampullae of Lorenzini, that feel the weak electricity of a fish's muscles and heartbeat, even when it is buried in sand.

Who acts: Sharks, tiny filled pores · What happens: have, fill, call, feel, bury, electrify · To what, where: tiny filled pores, snouts, ampullae, weak electricity, shark, sand · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sharks, tiny filled pores), 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	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pores	amod
4	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 filled	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 jelly	punct
6	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pores	amod
7	pores	pore	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 snouts	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 snouts	nmod:poss
10	snouts	snout	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pores	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 pores	acl
13	ampullae	ampulla	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Lorenzini	case
15	Lorenzini	Lorenzini	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ampullae	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feel	punct
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 feel	nsubj
18	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pores	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 electricity	det
20	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 electricity	amod
21	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feel	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 muscles	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fish	det
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 muscles	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 fish	case
26	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 electricity	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heartbeat	cc
28	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 muscles	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 buried	punct
30	even	even	ADV	_	34 buried	advmod
31	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 buried	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 buried	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 buried	aux:pass
34	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 feel	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 sand	case
36	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 buried	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Sharks	tiny filled pores	pores's snouts	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pore=Patient
2	fill	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	call	participle	tiny filled pores not said here	ampullae of Lorenzini		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	present	tiny filled pores	the weak electricity of a fish's muscles and heartbeat		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
5	bury	present · passive		shark	sand	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sand=Destination
6	electrify			a fish's muscles and heartbeat		nom electricity «phenomenon 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:9.

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 ×3, 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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