--- title: Moles have tiny eyes that can tell light from dark but see very litt… — The real animals of the river bank: the water vo… · tree and pragmatics description: Moles have tiny eyes that can tell light from dark but see very little; they find food by touch and smell with a pink, sensitive snout. Who acts: Moles, tiny eyes, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/11/) [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/) / [The real animals of the river bank: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds/) / 11 # The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds, sentence 11 Moles have tiny eyes that can tell light from dark but see very little; they find food by touch and smell with a pink, sensitive snout. **Who acts:** Moles, tiny eyes, eyes · **What happens:** have, tell, see, find · **To what, where:** tiny eyes, light, dark, little, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the river bank: the water vole, the mole, the otter, the toad and the river birds» 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 (Moles, tiny eyes, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:11 # text = Moles have tiny eyes that can tell light from dark but see very little; they find food by touch and smell with a pink, sensitive snout. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.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 Moles mole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Moles | tiny eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | tiny eyes | light | | dark | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent light=Recipient | | 3 | **see** | present | tiny eyes *not said here* | little | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus | | 4 | **find** | present | eyes *= eye* | food | | | | by touch and smell; with a pink sensitive snout | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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:403-the-real-animals-of-the-river-bank-water-vole-mole-otter-toad-and-the-river-birds.lesson:11`. **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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