--- title: Some animals go further and make their own electricity: the electric… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Some animals go further and make their own electricity: the electric eel stacks thousands of special cells like little batteries in a row and can give a shock strong enough to light a bulb. Who acts: animals, electric eel, heartbeat. 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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 (animals, electric eel, 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:3 # text = Some animals go further and make their own electricity: the electric eel stacks thousands of special cells like little batteries in a row and can give a shock strong enough to light a bulb. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 go go 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 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 make make 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 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stacks stack VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 31 enough enough ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 bulb bulb NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | some animals | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | some animals *not said here* | heartbeat's own electricity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset electricity=Product | | 3 | **stack** | present | the electric eel | thousands of special cells like little batteries in a row | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 4 | **give** | can | the electric eel *not said here* | a shock | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme | | 5 | **light** | to-infinitive | the electric eel *not said here* | a bulb | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulb=Product | | 6 | **electrify** | | heartbeat | | | | | | nom electricity «phenomenon 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:3`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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