--- title: Most of an electric eel's long body is made of special cells that wo… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Most of an electric eel's long body is made of special cells that work like many small batteries stacked in a row; it is not a true eel but a kind of knifefish, closer to catfish than to true eels. Who acts: special cells, eel. 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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 (special cells, eel), 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:7 # text = Most of an electric eel's long body is made of special cells that work like many small batteries stacked in a row; it is not a true eel but a kind of knifefish, closer to catfish than to true eels. # 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 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 batteries battery NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 stacked stack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 knifefish knifefish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:parataxis 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 catfish catfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=43:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 42 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | Most of a electric eel's long body | | | | of special cells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **work** | present | special cells | | | | | like many small batteries | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stack** | participle | | many small batteries *not said here* | | a row | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in row=Destination | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | eel | a true eel but a kind of knifefish | | | | | 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:7`. **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. **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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