--- title: Scientists find these senses by careful tests, for example by switch… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultra… · tree and pragmatics description: Scientists find these senses by careful tests, for example by switching on a weak radio noise and watching robins lose their way. Who acts: Scientists, robins. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 4 Scientists find these senses by careful tests, for example by switching on a weak radio noise and watching robins lose their way. **Who acts:** Scientists, robins · **What happens:** find, switch, watch, lose · **To what, where:** senses, weak radio noise, way 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 (Scientists, robins), 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:4 # text = Scientists find these senses by careful tests, for example by switching on a weak radio noise and watching robins lose their way. # 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): no change 1 Scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 senses sense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 switching switch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 radio radio NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 20 robins robin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **find** | present | Scientists | this senses | | | | by careful tests for example | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Topic | | 2 | **switch** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | | | a weak radio noise | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | Scientists *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | present | robins | senses's way | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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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