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title: A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away,… — Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell · tree and pragmatics
description: A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away, and it also feels the weak electricity made by the muscles of fish hiding in the sand. Who acts: shark, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 4

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A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away, and it also feels the weak electricity made by the muscles of fish hiding in the sand.

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**Who acts:** shark, fish · **What happens:** smell, feel, make, hide · **To what, where:** tiny trace, water, weak electricity, sand

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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 (shark, fish), 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:4
# text = A shark can smell a tiny trace of blood in the water from far away, and it also feels the weak electricity made by the muscles of fish hiding in the sand.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:agent	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | a shark | a tiny trace of blood |  | the water |  | far *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trace=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | present | shark | the weak electricity |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the weak electricity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | fish *not said here* |  |  | the sand |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location |

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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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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