Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 14

Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by warm animals.

Who acts: snakes · What happens: sense, give off · To what, where: heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 (snakes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sense	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 snakes	punct
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 rattlesnakes	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snakes	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rattlesnakes	punct
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sense	aux
9	sense	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sense	obj
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 heat	acl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 given	compound:prt
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 animals	case
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 given	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sense	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense	can	some snakes such rattlesnakes	the heat					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus
2	give off	participle		the heat not said here				by warm animals	vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source

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:world:079-senses-of-animals.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): R6-punct-agree ×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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