--- title: Fish have a lateral line, a row of pores along each side that feels… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: Fish have a lateral line, a row of pores along each side that feels water movement, so they can hold their place in a current or a shoal; blind cave fish steer by it alone. Who acts: Fish, side, movements, blind cave fish. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultravio --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 15 Fish have a lateral line, a row of pores along each side that feels water movement, so they can hold their place in a current or a shoal; blind cave fish steer by it alone. **Who acts:** Fish, side, movements, blind cave fish · **What happens:** have, feel, hold, steer · **To what, where:** lateral line, water movement, place, current 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 (Fish, side, movements, blind cave fish), 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:15 # text = Fish have a lateral line, a row of pores along each side that feels water movement, so they can hold their place in a current or a shoal; blind cave fish steer by it alone. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 lateral lateral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 pores pore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 along along ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 current current NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 shoal shoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 steer steer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 alone alone ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Fish | a lateral line | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | present | each side | water movement | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | can | movements *= movement* | movements's place | | a current or a shoal | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme in current=Location | | 4 | **steer** | present | blind cave fish | | | | | by shoal; alone *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by it=Destination | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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