--- title: Electric eels breathe air and must gulp at the surface every few min… — More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwha… · tree and pragmatics description: Electric eels breathe air and must gulp at the surface every few minutes, and they send out weak electric pulses to sense things in murky water. Who acts: Electric eels, cells. A sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the biolo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/14/) [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/) / [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/) / 14 # More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 14 Electric eels breathe air and must gulp at the surface every few minutes, and they send out weak electric pulses to sense things in murky water. **Who acts:** Electric eels, cells · **What happens:** breathe, gulp, send out, sense · **To what, where:** air, surface, weak electric pulses, things, murky water This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (Electric eels, cells), 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:14 # text = Electric eels breathe air and must gulp at the surface every few minutes, and they send out weak electric pulses to sense things in murky water. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eels eel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 gulp gulp VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 12 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 send send VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 pulses pulse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 sense sense VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:acl 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 murky murky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | present | Electric eels | air | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 2 | **gulp** | must | Electric eels *not said here* | | | the surface | minute | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **send out** | present | cells *= cell* | weak electric pulses | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pulse=Theme | | 4 | **sense** | to-infinitive | cells *= cell* *not said here* | things | | murky water | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/13/) - next →: [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/)