Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 13

Dolphins blow rings of air underwater and play with them, pushing and splitting them, and humpbacks blow spiral bubble nets to trap fish.

Who acts: Dolphins, humpbacks · What happens: blow, play, push, split, trap · To what, where: rings, Dolphins, spiral bubble nets, fish

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, humpbacks), 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	2 blow	nsubj
2	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blow	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 underwater	case
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rings	nmod
6	underwater	underwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rings	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 play	cc
8	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blow	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 play	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pushing	punct
12	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 play	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 splitting	cc
14	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pushing	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 splitting	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blow	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blow	cc
18	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blow	nsubj
19	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blow	conj
20	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 nets	amod
21	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nets	compound
22	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blow	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 trap	mark
24	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 blow	advcl
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trap	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	present	Dolphins	rings air of underwater		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
2	play	present	Dolphins not said here		with Dolphins = dolphin	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
3	push	gerund	Dolphins not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	split	gerund	Dolphins not said here	Dolphins = dolphin		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	blow	present	humpbacks	spiral bubble nets		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient
6	trap	to-infinitive	humpbacks not said here	fish		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:13.

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 ×2, R8-pos-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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