--- title: A bumblebee can feel a flower's weak electric charge, which changes… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: A bumblebee can feel a flower's weak electric charge, which changes for a while after another bee visits, so the bee may skip a flower that was just emptied. Who acts: bumblebee, weak electric charge, bee, flower. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bumblebee, weak electric charge, bee, flower), 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:14 # text = A bumblebee can feel a flower's weak electric charge, which changes for a while after another bee visits, so the bee may skip a flower that was just emptied. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bumblebee bumblebee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 after after SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 visits visit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 skip skip VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obj 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 emptied empty VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **feel** | can | a bumblebee | a flower's weak electric charge | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 2 | **change** | present | a flower's weak electric charge | | | | while | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **visit** | present | another bee | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **skip** | may | the bee | a flower | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Agent | | 5 | **empty** | past · passive | | a flower | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | | 6 | **charge** | | a flower | | | | | | nom charge «act 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:14`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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