Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 12

Whiskers are deep touch hairs in pockets full of nerves; they feel tiny air movements and help a cat judge gaps, so they must never be cut.

Who acts: Whiskers · What happens: be, feel, help, not cut · To what, where: deep touch hairs, pockets, tiny air movements, cat judge gaps, Whiskers

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 (Whiskers), 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	Whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hairs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hairs	cop
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hairs	amod
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hairs	compound
5	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 pockets	case
7	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hairs	nmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pockets	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 nerves	case
10	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pockets	acl:relcl
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 movements	amod
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 movements	compound
16	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feel	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
18	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 feel	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 gaps	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gaps	compound
21	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gaps	compound
22	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 help	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 cut	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	29 cut	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cut	aux
27	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 cut	advmod
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 cut	aux:pass
29	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 help	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hairs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Whiskers	deep touch hairs	pockets	tree rules
2	feel	present	Whiskers = whisker	tiny air movements		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
3	help	present	Whiskers = whisker not said here	a cat judge gaps		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Beneficiary
4	not cut	must · passive		Whiskers = whisker		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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:12.

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): 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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