Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 14
In tests in Hawaii, dolphins understood that word order in hand-signal sentences changes the meaning.
Who acts: dolphins · What happens: understand, change · To what, where: tests, meaning · 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 tests | case |
| 2 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 understood | obl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Hawaii | case |
| 4 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tests | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dolphins | punct |
| 6 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 changes | mark |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 order | compound |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sentences | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 signal | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hand | punct |
| 14 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sentences | compound |
| 15 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 order | nmod |
| 16 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 understood | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meaning | det |
| 18 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 changes | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | dolphins | tests in Hawaii | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | change | present | the meaning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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:14.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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