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title: Each hidden sense fits a life: a snake hunting mice in the dark feel… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each hidden sense fits a life: a snake hunting mice in the dark feels their heat, a fish in a muddy river feels the water move, and a mole in black soil touches everything with its nose. Who acts: hidden sense, fish, mole, senses. A sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, 
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# Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 3

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Each hidden sense fits a life: a snake hunting mice in the dark feels their heat, a fish in a muddy river feels the water move, and a mole in black soil touches everything with its nose.

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**Who acts:** hidden sense, fish, mole, senses · **What happens:** fit, feel, touch, heat · **To what, where:** life, heat, water move, everything

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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 (hidden sense, fish, mole, senses), 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:3
# text = Each hidden sense fits a life: a snake hunting mice in the dark feels their heat, a fish in a muddy river feels the water move, and a mole in black soil touches everything with its nose.
# 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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound
4	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	nmod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod
35	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:compound
36	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | each hidden sense | a life and hunting mice |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | present |  | senses's heat |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a fish in a muddy river | the water move |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | present | a mole  black soil | everything |  |  |  | with mole's nose | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent everything=Theme with nose=Instrument |
| 5 | **heat** |  | senses *= sense* |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:3`.

**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 ×5, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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