--- title: An electric eel can make shocks of up to about 860 volts in one kind… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: An electric eel can make shocks of up to about 860 volts in one kind described in 2019, from many small electric cells firing together; it is really a knifefish, related to catfish and carp, not a true eel, and it lives in muddy South American rivers. 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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 (electric eel, many small electric cells, eel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:13 # text = An electric eel can make shocks of up to about 860 volts in one kind described in 2019, from many small electric cells firing together; it is really a knifefish, related to catfish and carp, not a true eel, and it lives in muddy South American rivers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 shocks shock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 up up ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 860 860 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 volts volt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 from from SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 firing fire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 30 really really ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 knifefish knifefish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 catfish catfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 carp carp NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 eel eel NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 50 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 51 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | a electric eel | shocks of 860 volts in one kind | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shock=Product | | 2 | **describe** | participle | | one kind *not said here* | | 2019 | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fire** | gerund | many small electric cells | | | | | together *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | eel | a knifefish and a true eel | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **live** | present | eel | | | muddy South American rivers | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location | | 6 | **shock** | | | 860 volts in one kind | | | | | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:13`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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