Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 1

Under the sea light fades fast, but sound travels well and quickly, so an echo is often the best way to «see» there.

Who acts: light, sound, echo · What happens: fade, travel, be, see · To what, where: best way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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 (light, sound, echo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 light	nmod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fades	nsubj
5	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fades	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 travels	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 travels	cc
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travels	nsubj
10	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fades	conj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 travels	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 quickly	cc
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 well	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 echo	det
17	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 way	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
19	often	often	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fades	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 way	acl
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 see	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fades	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fade	present	light under the sea			fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	travel	present	sound			well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	a echo	the best way		often property	tree rules
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	light under the sea not said here		there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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, 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:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:1.

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): 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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