Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 15

Fish have a lateral line, a row of pores along each side that feels water movement, so they can hold their place in a current or a shoal; blind cave fish steer by it alone.

Who acts: Fish, side, movements, blind cave fish · What happens: have, feel, hold, steer · To what, where: lateral line, water movement, place, current

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 (Fish, side, movements, blind cave fish), 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	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 line	det
4	lateral	lateral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 line	amod
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 row	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 pores	case
10	pores	pore	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 row	nmod
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pores	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 feels	nsubj
15	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 side	acl:relcl
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 movement	compound
17	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feels	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hold	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 hold	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hold	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hold	aux
22	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 have	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod:poss
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hold	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 current	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 current	det
27	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hold	obl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 shoal	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shoal	det
30	shoal	shoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 current	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 steer	punct
32	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fish	amod
33	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fish	compound
34	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 steer	nsubj
35	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hold	parataxis
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 steer	obl
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	35 steer	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Fish	a lateral line			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient
2	feel	present	each side	water movement			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme
3	hold	can	movements = movement	movements's place	a current or a shoal		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in current=Location
4	steer	present	blind cave fish			by shoal; alone property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by it=Destination

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:15.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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