Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 10
Rattlesnakes and other pit vipers have two heat-sensing pits on their faces, so they can find a warm mouse in total darkness.
Who acts: Rattlesnakes · What happens: have, sense, find · To what, where: two sensing pits, faces, warm mouse, total darkness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (Rattlesnakes), 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 | Rattlesnakes | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 vipers | cc |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vipers | amod |
| 4 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vipers | compound |
| 5 | vipers | viper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rattlesnakes | conj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pits | nummod |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sensing | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 heat | punct |
| 10 | sensing | sense | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pits | amod |
| 11 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 faces | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 faces | nmod:poss |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 find | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 have | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 21 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mouse | amod |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 darkness | case |
| 24 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 darkness | amod |
| 25 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Rattlesnakes and other pit vipers | two sensing pits | Rattlesnakes's faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient | |||
| 2 | sense | gerund | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | find | can | Rattlesnakes = rattlesnake | a warm mouse | total darkness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic |
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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:10.
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. 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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