Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 16

Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms.

Who acts: Elephants, we · What happens: hear, not hear, feel, sense · To what, where: low rumbles, rumbles, feet, distant thunderstorms

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 (Elephants, we), 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	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 low	advmod
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rumbles	amod
5	rumbles	rumble	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hear	advmod
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rumbles	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feel	cc
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hear	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feel	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feel	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sense	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sense	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sense	nsubj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 sense	aux
20	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hear	conj
21	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thunderstorms	amod
22	thunderstorms	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sense	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	present	Elephants	low rumbles		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumble=Stimulus
2	not hear	can	we	low rumbles not said here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumble=Stimulus
3	feel	infinitive	we not said here	rumbles = rumble	Elephants's feet	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through foot=Location
4	sense	may	Elephants = elephant	distant thunderstorms		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunderstorm=Stimulus

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:16.

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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