Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 0
Dolphins and whales are mammals that went back to the sea about 50 million years ago, and they took big, social brains with them.
Who acts: Dolphins, mammals · What happens: be, go back, take · To what, where: mammals, big social brains
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» 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 (Dolphins, mammals), 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 | Dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mammals | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 whales | cc |
| 3 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dolphins | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mammals | cop |
| 5 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mammals | acl:relcl |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 million | advmod |
| 13 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 million | compound |
| 14 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brains | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 big | punct |
| 23 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 brains | amod |
| 24 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mammals | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dolphins and whales | mammals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | mammals | to the sea result; ago property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Dolphins = dolphin | big social brains | with brains = brain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme |
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:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:0.
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): R5-strong ×3. 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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