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title: Some shrews and tenrecs use simple echoes from squeaks to explore tu… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some shrews and tenrecs use simple echoes from squeaks to explore tunnels and thick grass. Who acts: shrews. A sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t
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# Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 10

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Some shrews and tenrecs use simple echoes from squeaks to explore tunnels and thick grass.

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**Who acts:** shrews · **What happens:** use, explore · **To what, where:** simple echoes, squeaks, tunnels

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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 (shrews), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:10
# text = Some shrews and tenrecs use simple echoes from squeaks to explore tunnels and thick grass.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	shrews	shrew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tenrecs	tenrec	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	explore	explore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
12	tunnels	tunnel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | some shrews and tenrecs | simple echoes |  | squeaks |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |
| 2 | **explore** | to-infinitive | some shrews and tenrecs *not said here* | tunnels and thick grass |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent tunnel=Location |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:10`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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