--- title: The star-nosed mole's star has 22 fleshy rays, 11 on each side, with… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: The star-nosed mole's star has 22 fleshy rays, 11 on each side, with about 25,000 tiny touch sensors, and it can find and eat a tiny meal in about a quarter of a second. Who acts: star. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (star), 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:7 # text = The star-nosed mole's star has 22 fleshy rays, 11 on each side, with about 25,000 tiny touch sensors, and it can find and eat a tiny meal in about a quarter of a second. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 nosed nose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 star star NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 fleshy fleshy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 11 11 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 appos _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 25,000 25000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 sensors sensor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nose** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | the nosed mole's star | 22 fleshy rays and 25,000 tiny touch sensors | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Patient | | 3 | **find** | can | star | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **eat** | infinitive | star *not said here* | a tiny meal | | a quarter of a second | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | 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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:7`. **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): 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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