Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs, sentence 13

Tickled rats make very high chirps that people cannot hear without special equipment, and they come back for more tickles.

Who acts: Tickled rats, people · What happens: tickle, make, not hear, come back · To what, where: high chirps

This is a sentence of the lesson «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 (Tickled rats, people), 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	Tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rats	amod
2	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chirps	amod
6	chirps	chirp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hear	obj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hear	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hear	advmod
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chirps	acl:relcl
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 equipment	case
13	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 equipment	amod
14	equipment	equipment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 tickles	case
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 tickles	amod
22	tickles	tickle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tickle	participle				vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	Tickled rats	high chirps		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chirp=Product
3	not hear	can	people	high chirps	without special equipment	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	come back	present	People		for more tickles	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs.lesson:13.

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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