Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 1

A bottlenose dolphin has its own whistle that works like a name, and its friends call it by copying that whistle.

Who acts: bottlenose dolphin, own whistle, friends, sea · What happens: have, work, call, copy, whistle · To what, where: own whistle, whistle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bottlenose dolphin, own whistle, friends, sea), 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	3 dolphin	det
2	bottlenose	bottlenose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dolphin	compound
3	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 whistle	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whistle	amod
7	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 works	nsubj
9	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whistle	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 works	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 call	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 call	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 call	nsubj
17	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	obj
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 copying	mark
20	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 call	advcl
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 whistle	det
22	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 copying	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a bottlenose dolphin	sea's own whistle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	work	present	sea's own whistle		like a name	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present	sea's friends	whistle		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	copy	gerund	sea's friends not said here	that whistle		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
5	whistle		sea			nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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: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): 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.

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