Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 3

Think of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV: the boat sends a ping and times the echo, a trick dolphins had for millions of years before us.

Who acts: you, boat, dolphins · What happens: think, send, time, have · To what, where: ping, trick

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 (you, boat, dolphins), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 screen	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 screen	det
4	sonar	sonar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 screen	compound
5	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 boat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boat	det
8	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boat	compound
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 screen	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 TV	case
11	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boat	nmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 sends	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boat	det
14	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sends	nsubj
15	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Think	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 ping	det
17	ping	ping	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sends	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 times	cc
19	times	time	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sends	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 echo	det
21	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sends	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 trick	det
24	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 echo	appos
25	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 trick	acl:relcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 millions	case
28	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 had	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 years	case
30	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 millions	nmod
31	before	before	ADP	_	32 us	case
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	present	the boat	a ping			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ping=Destination echo=Theme
3	time	present	the boat not said here				vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past	dolphins	a trick not said here	before us	for millions of years	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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, 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:3.

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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