--- title: Water carries electricity well, which is why almost all electric sen… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Water carries electricity well, which is why almost all electric senses belong to animals that live or hunt in water; on land, bees are a rare surprise. Who acts: Water, rare surprise, electric senses, animals. 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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 (Water, rare surprise, electric senses, animals), 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:4 # text = Water carries electricity well, which is why almost all electric senses belong to animals that live or hunt in water; on land, bees are a rare surprise. # 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 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 well well ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 9 almost almost ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 11 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl:relcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **carry** | present | Water | electricity | | | | well *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a rare surprise | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **belong** | present | all electric senses | | | | | to animals | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | animals | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hunt** | present | animals *not said here* | | | water | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 6 | **is a** | present | bees | a rare surprise | | land | | | tree rules | 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:4`. **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. 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