--- title: Elephantnose fish make a weak electric field around themselves and r… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephantnose fish make a weak electric field around themselves and read it with their long chins to find food in dark, muddy African rivers. Who acts: Elephantnose fish. A sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/12/) [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/) / 12 # Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 12 Elephantnose fish make a weak electric field around themselves and read it with their long chins to find food in dark, muddy African rivers. **Who acts:** Elephantnose fish · **What happens:** make, read, find · **To what, where:** weak electric field, field, food, dark muddy African rivers 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 (Elephantnose fish), 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:12 # text = Elephantnose fish make a weak electric field around themselves and read it with their long chins to find food in dark, muddy African rivers. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 Elephantnose elephantnose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 11 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 chins chin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:acl 19 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 African African ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Elephantnose fish | a weak electric field | | | | around sensors *= sensor* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product | | 2 | **read** | present | Elephantnose fish *not said here* | field | | | | with sensors's long chins | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | Elephantnose fish *not said here* | food | | dark muddy African rivers | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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:12`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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