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title: A shark gliding over the sand can feel the heartbeat of a fish hidin… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics
description: A shark gliding over the sand can feel the heartbeat of a fish hiding underneath, like you finding a friend under a blanket by feeling them breathe. Who acts: shark, fish, you, heartbeat. A sentence of the lesson «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» of the bio
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# Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 2

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A shark gliding over the sand can feel the heartbeat of a fish hiding underneath, like you finding a friend under a blanket by feeling them breathe.

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**Who acts:** shark, fish, you, heartbeat · **What happens:** glide, feel, hiding, find, breathe · **To what, where:** sand, heartbeat, friend, blanket

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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 (shark, fish, you, heartbeat), 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:2
# text = A shark gliding over the sand can feel the heartbeat of a fish hiding underneath, like you finding a friend under a blanket by feeling them breathe.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	hiding	hiding	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl	_	_
15	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **glide** | gerund | a shark *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feel** | can | a shark | the heartbeat of a fish |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartbeat=Theme |
| 3 | **hiding** | gerund | a fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | underneath *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | you | a friend |  | a blanket |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic |
| 5 | **feel** | gerund | you *not said here* | heartbeat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **breathe** | infinitive | heartbeat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «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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**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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