More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 14

Electric eels breathe air and must gulp at the surface every few minutes, and they send out weak electric pulses to sense things in murky water.

Who acts: Electric eels, cells · What happens: breathe, gulp, send out, sense · To what, where: air, surface, weak electric pulses, things, murky water

This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (Electric eels, cells), 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	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eels	amod
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	nsubj
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gulp	cc
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 gulp	aux
7	gulp	gulp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 breathe	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 surface	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 surface	det
10	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gulp	obl
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 minutes	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 minutes	amod
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gulp	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 send	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 send	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 send	nsubj
17	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 send	compound:prt
19	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pulses	amod
20	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pulses	amod
21	pulses	pulse	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 send	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 sense	mark
23	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 send	advcl
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sense	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	murky	murky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 water	amod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sense	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breathe	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	breathe	present	Electric eels	air			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
2	gulp	must	Electric eels not said here		the surface	minute	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	send out	present	cells = cell	weak electric pulses			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme
4	sense	to-infinitive	cells = cell not said here	things	murky water		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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