Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 3
Watch a family at the beach: the kids learn tricks from older kids and grandma knows where the best rock pools are; dolphin and orca groups work in much the same way.
Who acts: you, kids, grandma, dolphin · What happens: watch, learn, know, be, work · To what, where: family, beach, tricks, best rock pools · 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 (you, kids, grandma, dolphin), 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 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 family | det |
| 3 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 beach | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beach | det |
| 6 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watch | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kids | det |
| 9 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learn | nsubj |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watch | parataxis |
| 11 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 learn | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 kids | case |
| 13 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 kids | amod |
| 14 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tricks | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knows | cc |
| 16 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knows | nsubj |
| 17 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | conj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 pools | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pools | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 pools | amod |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pools | compound |
| 22 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knows | ccomp |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pools | cop |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dolphin | punct |
| 25 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 work | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 groups | cc |
| 27 | orca | orca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dolphin | conj |
| 28 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dolphin | conj |
| 29 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 knows | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 33 same | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 work | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Watch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | imperative | you not said here | a family | the beach | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | present | the kids | tricks | from older kids | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent trick=Topic from kid=Source | |||
| 3 | know | present | grandma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the best rock pools | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | work | present | dolphin and orca and groups | in the same way | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=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:3.
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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