Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 5

Homing pigeons find their way back over hundreds of kilometres using the sun, landmarks, smells and probably a sense of the Earth's magnetic field.

Who acts: Homing pigeons, kilometres · What happens: home, find back, use, sense · To what, where: way, hundreds, sun, magnetic field

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 (Homing pigeons, kilometres), 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	Homing	home	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pigeons	amod
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 hundreds	case
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 kilometres	case
10	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod
11	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kilometres	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 using	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 landmarks	punct
15	landmarks	landmark	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sun	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 smells	punct
17	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sun	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sense	cc
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	21 sense	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 sense	det
21	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sun	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 field	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Earth	det
24	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 field	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Earth	case
26	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 field	amod
27	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sense	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	home	gerund				tree rules
2	find back	present	Homing pigeons	senses's way	hundreds of kilometres	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
3	use	gerund	kilometres not said here	the sun and landmarks and smells and a sense of the Earth's magnetic field		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient
4	sense			the Earth's magnetic field		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=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:5.

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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