--- title: Whiskers are deep touch hairs in pockets full of nerves; they feel t… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: Whiskers are deep touch hairs in pockets full of nerves; they feel tiny air movements and help a cat judge gaps, so they must never be cut. Who acts: Whiskers. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/) / 12 # Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 12 Whiskers are deep touch hairs in pockets full of nerves; they feel tiny air movements and help a cat judge gaps, so they must never be cut. **Who acts:** Whiskers · **What happens:** be, feel, help, not cut · **To what, where:** deep touch hairs, pockets, tiny air movements, cat judge gaps, Whiskers This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (Whiskers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:12 # text = Whiskers are deep touch hairs in pockets full of nerves; they feel tiny air movements and help a cat judge gaps, so they must never be cut. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 21 judge judge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 gaps gap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Whiskers | deep touch hairs | | pockets | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | Whiskers *= whisker* | tiny air movements | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | | 3 | **help** | present | Whiskers *= whisker* *not said here* | a cat judge gaps | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Beneficiary | | 4 | **not** **cut** | must · passive | | Whiskers *= whisker* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.lesson:12`. **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): 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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