Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 17

The star-nosed mole has 22 fleshy fingers on its nose and can find and eat a small worm in less than a quarter of a second.

Who acts: nosed mole · What happens: nose, have, find, eat · To what, where: 22 fleshy fingers, nose, small worm, quarter

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 (nosed mole), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mole	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nosed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 star	punct
4	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mole	amod
5	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 fingers	nummod
8	fleshy	fleshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fingers	amod
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 nose	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nose	nmod:poss
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 has	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 eat	cc
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 find	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 worm	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 worm	amod
20	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 quarter	case
22	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	25 quarter	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 less	fixed
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 quarter	det
25	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 second	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 second	det
28	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quarter	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	nose	participle				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	the nosed mole	22 fleshy fingers	mole's nose	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
3	find	can	the nosed mole not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	eat	infinitive	the nosed mole not said here	a small worm	a quarter of a second	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:17.

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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