--- title: Electric eels use weak pulses to sense what is around them and stron… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Electric eels use weak pulses to sense what is around them and strong shocks to stun prey and scare enemies, and even young eels can give a tingle. Who acts: Electric eels, young eels. 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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 (Electric eels, young eels), 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:8 # text = Electric eels use weak pulses to sense what is around them and strong shocks to stun prey and scare enemies, and even young eels can give a tingle. # 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 ×1 1 Electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pulses pulse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sense sense VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 around around ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 shocks shock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 stun stun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl 17 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 20 enemies enemy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 tingle tingle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **use** | present | Electric eels | weak pulses | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Patient | | 2 | **sense** | to-infinitive | Electric eels *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | around pulses *= pulse* | tree rules | | 4 | **stun** | to-infinitive | | prey | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prey=Experiencer | | 5 | **scare** | infinitive | | enemies | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer | | 6 | **give** | can | young eels | a tingle | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tingle=Theme | 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:8`. **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 ×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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