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title: Our own nerves and heart also run on tiny electric signals, which is… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Our own nerves and heart also run on tiny electric signals, which is why a shock from a socket is so dangerous to us. Who acts: own nerves. 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 with its de
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# Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees, sentence 5

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Our own nerves and heart also run on tiny electric signals, which is why a shock from a socket is so dangerous to us.

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**Who acts:** own nerves · **What happens:** run, be · **To what, where:** tiny electric signals, us

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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 (own nerves), 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:5
# text = Our own nerves and heart also run on tiny electric signals, which is why a shock from a socket is so dangerous to us.
# 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	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
15	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	socket	socket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **run** | present | Our own nerves and heart |  |  | tiny electric signals |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on signal=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  | us |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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.

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

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