Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 5

A dolphin's echoes can tell whether an object is hollow or solid, so it can find a hidden ring in water too cloudy to see through.

Who acts: echoes, object · What happens: tell, be, find, see through · To what, where: hidden ring, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (echoes, object), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dolphin	det
2	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 echoes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dolphin	case
4	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 hollow	mark
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hollow	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hollow	cop
11	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	ccomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 solid	cc
13	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hollow	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 find	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 find	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 find	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ring	det
20	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ring	amod
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 find	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 water	case
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ring	nmod
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 cloudy	advmod
25	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	amod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cloudy	advcl
28	through	through	ADV	_	27 see	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	a dolphin's echoes				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a object			hollow property	tree rules
3	be		a object not said here				tree rules
4	find	can	object	a hidden ring	water		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
5	see through	to-infinitive	object not said here				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:5.

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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