--- title: Sharks have tiny jelly-filled pores on their snouts, called ampullae… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: Sharks have tiny jelly-filled pores on their snouts, called ampullae of Lorenzini, that feel the weak electricity of a fish's muscles and heartbeat, even when it is buried in sand. Who acts: Sharks, tiny filled pores. 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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 (Sharks, tiny filled pores), 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:9 # text = Sharks have tiny jelly-filled pores on their snouts, called ampullae of Lorenzini, that feel the weak electricity of a fish's muscles and heartbeat, even when it is buried in sand. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sharks shark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 4 jelly jelly NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 pores pore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl 13 ampullae ampulla NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Lorenzini Lorenzini PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 heartbeat heartbeat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 advcl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **have** | present | Sharks | tiny filled pores | | pores's snouts | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pore=Patient | | 2 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | tiny filled pores *not said here* | ampullae of Lorenzini | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | present | tiny filled pores | the weak electricity of a fish's muscles and heartbeat | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme | | 5 | **bury** | present · passive | | shark | | sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in sand=Destination | | 6 | **electrify** | | | a fish's muscles and heartbeat | | | | | nom electricity «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:9`. **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 ×3, 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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