Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 15
Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals, and some countries have banned dolphin shows.
Who acts: Many people, tanks, countries · What happens: think, be, swim, ban · To what, where: dolphin shows · 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 (Many people, tanks, countries), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 small | cop |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 animals | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 animals | amod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 swimming | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 far | punct |
| 12 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 animals | amod |
| 13 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 small | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 banned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 banned | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 countries | det |
| 17 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 banned | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 banned | aux |
| 19 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | conj |
| 20 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shows | compound |
| 21 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 banned | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Many people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | tanks | for such swimming animals; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | gerund | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ban | present · perfect | some countries | dolphin shows | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer show=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:15.
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 ×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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