Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 4

Scientists find these senses by careful tests, for example by switching on a weak radio noise and watching robins lose their way.

Who acts: Scientists, robins · What happens: find, switch, watch, lose · To what, where: senses, weak radio noise, way

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 (Scientists, robins), 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	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 senses	det
4	senses	sense	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tests	case
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tests	amod
7	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 example	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 example	case
10	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tests	nmod
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 switching	mark
12	switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 find	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	17 noise	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 noise	det
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 noise	amod
16	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 noise	compound
17	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 switching	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 watching	cc
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 switching	conj
20	robins	robin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lose	nsubj
21	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watching	ccomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 way	nmod:poss
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lose	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	Scientists	this senses		by careful tests for example	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Topic
2	switch	gerund	Scientists not said here		a weak radio noise		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	watch	gerund	Scientists not said here				tree rules
4	lose	present	robins	senses's way			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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:4.

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): no change. 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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