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title: A hagfish has one main heart and several helper hearts, often counte… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hagfish has one main heart and several helper hearts, often counted as four in all; it can live for months without eating and helps clean the sea floor by eating dead whales and fish. Who acts: hagfish. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins a
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# Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 16

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A hagfish has one main heart and several helper hearts, often counted as four in all; it can live for months without eating and helps clean the sea floor by eating dead whales and fish.

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**Who acts:** hagfish · **What happens:** have, count, live, eat, help, clean · **To what, where:** one main heart, several helper hearts, sea floor, dead whales

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (hagfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:16
# text = A hagfish has one main heart and several helper hearts, often counted as four in all; it can live for months without eating and helps clean the sea floor by eating dead whales and fish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hagfish	hagfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	helper	helper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
34	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | a hagfish | one main heart and several helper hearts |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | participle |  | several helper hearts *not said here* |  |  |  | as four in all; often *property* | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as four=Attribute |
| 3 | **live** | can | hagfish |  |  |  | month |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | hagfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | present | hagfish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **clean** | infinitive | hagfish *not said here* | the sea floor |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient |
| 7 | **eat** | gerund | hagfish *not said here* | dead whales and fish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Patient |

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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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**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, 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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