Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 11
There are real reports of dolphins staying near swimmers in danger, but dolphins are wild animals with big teeth and can be rough.
Who acts: real reports, dolphins · What happens: be, stay, report · To what, where: swimmers, wild animals, dolphins
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 (real reports, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reports | amod |
| 4 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dolphins | case |
| 6 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reports | nmod |
| 7 | staying | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 dolphins | acl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 swimmers | case |
| 9 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 staying | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swimmers | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 animals | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 animals | cc |
| 14 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 animals | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 animals | cop |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 teeth | case |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 teeth | amod |
| 20 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 animals | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rough | cc |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 rough | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 rough | cop |
| 24 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | 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 | does | present | real reports of dolphins | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | dolphins not said here | swimmers in danger | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near swimmer=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | dolphins | wild animals | with big teeth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | can | dolphins not said here | rough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | report | dolphins | nom report «communication transitive»: of=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:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:11.
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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