--- title: Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms. Who acts: Elephants, we. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» of the biology co --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 16 Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms. **Who acts:** Elephants, we · **What happens:** hear, not hear, feel, sense · **To what, where:** low rumbles, rumbles, feet, distant thunderstorms 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 (Elephants, we), 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:16 # text = Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rumbles rumble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 through through ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 sense sense VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 21 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 thunderstorms thunderstorm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 . . 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 | **hear** | present | Elephants | low rumbles | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumble=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **hear** | can | we | low rumbles *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumble=Stimulus | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | we *not said here* | rumbles *= rumble* | | Elephants's feet | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through foot=Location | | 4 | **sense** | may | Elephants *= elephant* | distant thunderstorms | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunderstorm=Stimulus | 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:16`. **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. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/15/) - next →: [Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/)