--- title: People cannot feel other animals' electric fields, but our hearts an… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: People cannot feel other animals' electric fields, but our hearts and brains work with electric signals that doctors measure with an ECG and an EEG. Who acts: People, hearts, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» of the biology --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 16 People cannot feel other animals' electric fields, but our hearts and brains work with electric signals that doctors measure with an ECG and an EEG. **Who acts:** People, hearts, doctors · **What happens:** not feel, work, measure · **To what, where:** electric fields, electric signals 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 (People, hearts, doctors), 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:16 # text = People cannot feel other animals' electric fields, but our hearts and brains work with electric signals that doctors measure with an ECG and an EEG. # 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): no change 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ' 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 21 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 measure measure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ECG ecg NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 EEG eeg NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **feel** | can | People | other animals's electric fields | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | our hearts and brains | | | | | with electric signals | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with signal=Co-Agent | | 3 | **measure** | present | doctors | electric signals | | | | with a ECG and a EEG | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme that=Value | 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:16`. **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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