--- title: The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells unde… — Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles… · tree and pragmatics description: The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in. Who acts: nosed mole. A sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» of the biology course of Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/8/) [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/) / [Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-n…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish/) / 8 # Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 8 The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in. **Who acts:** nosed mole · **What happens:** swim, smell, blow, sniff back · **To what, where:** North American wetlands, little bubbles, things, bubbles 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 (nosed mole), 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:8 # text = The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in. # 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 ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 wetlands wetland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 underwater underwater ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 by by SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 advcl _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 onto onto ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sniffing sniff VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present | the nosed mole | | | North American wetlands | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wetland=Trajectory | | 2 | **smell** | present | the nosed mole *not said here* | | | | | underwater *property* | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blow** | gerund | the nosed mole *not said here* | little bubbles | | things | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient onto thing=Recipient | | 4 | **sniff back** | gerund | the nosed mole *not said here* | bubbles *= bubble* | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:8`. **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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