Compasses and the magnetic Earth, sentence 12

Many birds, and also turtles and some fish, can sense the Earth's magnetic field and use it with the Sun and stars to find their way.

Who acts: Many birds · What happens: sense, use, find · To what, where: magnetic field, field, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» of the physics 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 (Many birds), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sense	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turtles	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turtles	cc
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 turtles	advmod
6	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fish	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 birds	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sense	aux
12	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Earth	det
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 field	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Earth	case
16	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 field	amod
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sense	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 use	cc
19	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sense	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 use	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 Sun	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sun	det
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 use	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stars	cc
25	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 Sun	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 use	advcl
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sense	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sense	can	Many birds and turtles and some fish	the Earth's magnetic field		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus
2	use	infinitive	Many birds and turtles and some fish not said here	field	with the Sun and stars	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	find	to-infinitive	Many birds and turtles and some fish not said here	birds's way		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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:physics:030-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth.lesson:12.

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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