Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 4

A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away, and it also feels the weak electricity made by the muscles of fish hiding in the sand.

Who acts: shark, fish · What happens: smell, feel, make, hide · To what, where: tiny trace, water, weak electricity, sand

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 (shark, fish), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shark	det
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	aux
4	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trace	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trace	amod
7	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smell	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 blood	case
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trace	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trace	nmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 far	case
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 smell	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 far	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feels	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 feels	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 feels	nsubj
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 feels	advmod
20	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smell	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 electricity	det
22	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 electricity	amod
23	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feels	obj
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 electricity	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 muscles	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 muscles	det
27	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 made	obl:agent
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fish	case
29	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 muscles	nmod
30	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 fish	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 sand	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sand	det
33	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hiding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smell	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell	can	a shark	a tiny trace of blood	the water	far property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trace=Theme in water=Location
2	feel	present	shark	the weak electricity			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme
3	make	participle		the weak electricity not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	hide	gerund	fish not said here		the sand		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location

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:4.

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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