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title: A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics
description: A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons. Who acts: real electric shock, muscles, heart, hair. A sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» of the biology course of M
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# Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 17

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A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons.

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**Who acts:** real electric shock, muscles, heart, hair · **What happens:** make, jump, stop, not make, not stand up · **To what, where:** muscles, heart, hair

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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 (real electric shock, muscles, heart, hair), 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:17
# text = A real electric shock makes muscles jump and can stop the heart; it does not just make hair stand up like in cartoons.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	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 | **make** | present | a real electric shock | muscles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump** | infinitive | muscles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | can | a real electric shock *not said here* | the heart |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | heart | hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **stand up** | infinitive | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like cartoons | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.lesson:17`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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