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title: Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by w… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by warm animals. Who acts: snakes. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 14

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Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by warm animals.

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**Who acts:** snakes · **What happens:** sense, give off · **To what, where:** heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 (snakes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:14
# text = Some snakes, such as rattlesnakes, can sense the heat given off by warm animals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 079-senses-of-animals.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sense	sense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** | can | some snakes such rattlesnakes | the heat |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give off** | participle |  | the heat *not said here* |  |  |  | by warm animals | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source |

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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.

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**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:world:079-senses-of-animals.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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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