--- title: A platypus closes its eyes, ears and nose underwater and finds shrim… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: A platypus closes its eyes, ears and nose underwater and finds shrimps and worms with the electric and touch sensors in its soft bill. Who acts: platypus. A sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Electric senses: electric eels, sharks…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees/) / 11 # Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 11 A platypus closes its eyes, ears and nose underwater and finds shrimps and worms with the electric and touch sensors in its soft bill. **Who acts:** platypus · **What happens:** close, find, bill · **To what, where:** eyes, shrimps, soft bill This is a sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» 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 (platypus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.lesson:11 # text = A platypus closes its eyes, ears and nose underwater and finds shrimps and worms with the electric and touch sensors in its soft bill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.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): R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 platypus platypus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 closes close VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 10 underwater underwater ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 shrimps shrimp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 worms worm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound 21 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present | a platypus | platypus's eyes and ears and nose | | | | underwater *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **find** | present | a platypus *not said here* | shrimps and worms | | platypus's soft bill | | with the electric sensors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Topic | | 3 | **bill** | | platypus | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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](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:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.lesson:11`. **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): R5-strong ×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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