Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 3
Each hidden sense fits a life: a snake hunting mice in the dark feels their heat, a fish in a muddy river feels the water move, and a mole in black soil touches everything with its nose.
Who acts: hidden sense, fish, mole, senses · What happens: fit, feel, touch, heat · To what, where: life, heat, water move, everything
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 (hidden sense, fish, mole, senses), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 sense | det |
| 2 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sense | amod |
| 3 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fits | nsubj |
| 4 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 life | det |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fits | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 mice | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hunting | det |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | compound |
| 10 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mice | compound |
| 11 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 life | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 feels | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dark | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feels | amod |
| 15 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mice | nmod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heat | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feels | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feels | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feels | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 23 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 river | amod |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fish | nmod |
| 25 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 feels | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 move | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 move | compound |
| 28 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feels | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 touches | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 touches | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 mole | det |
| 32 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 touches | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 touches | case |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 soil | amod |
| 35 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mole | nmod |
| 36 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fits | conj |
| 37 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 36 touches | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 nose | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 nose | nmod:poss |
| 40 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 touches | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | each hidden sense | a life and hunting mice | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | senses's heat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | a fish in a muddy river | the water move | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme | ||||
| 4 | touch | present | a mole black soil | everything | with mole's nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent everything=Theme with nose=Instrument | |||
| 5 | heat | senses = sense | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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