Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 2

Some animals sense things we cannot: bees see ultraviolet patterns on flowers, bats hear very high sounds, and dogs smell scents thousands of times weaker than we can.

Who acts: animals, bees, bats, dogs · What happens: sense, see, hear, smell · To what, where: things, ultraviolet patterns, flowers, high sounds, scents

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 (animals, bees, bats, dogs), 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 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sense	nsubj
3	sense	sense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sense	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 can	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 things	acl:relcl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 can	advmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sense	parataxis
11	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 patterns	amod
12	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 see	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 flowers	case
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 patterns	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hear	punct
16	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hear	nsubj
17	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sense	conj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 high	advmod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sounds	amod
20	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hear	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smell	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 smell	cc
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smell	nsubj
24	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sense	conj
25	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 smell	obj
26	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 weaker	advmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 times	case
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 thousands	nmod
29	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 smell	parataxis
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 can	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 can	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 weaker	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sense	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sense	present	some animals	things		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	see	present	bees	ultraviolet patterns	flowers	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
3	hear	present	bats	high sounds		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
4	smell	present	dogs	scents		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scent=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:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:2.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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