Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 7

Orcas in Antarctica swim side by side to make a wave that washes a seal off an ice floe, and older orcas teach younger ones.

Who acts: Orcas, wave, older orcas · What happens: swim, make, wash, teach · To what, where: side, wave, seal, ice floe, younger ones

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 (Orcas, wave, older orcas), 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	Orcas	orca	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Antarctica	case
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Orcas	nmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 side	case
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 swim	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wave	det
11	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 washes	nsubj
13	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wave	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 seal	det
15	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 washes	obj
16	off	off	ADP	_	19 floe	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 floe	det
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 floe	compound
19	floe	floe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 washes	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 teach	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 teach	cc
22	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 orcas	amod
23	orcas	orca	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 teach	nsubj
24	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	conj
25	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 teach	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swim	present	Orcas in Antarctica	side by side		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	Orcas in Antarctica not said here	a wave		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wave=Product
3	wash	present	a wave	a seal	a ice floe	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent seal=Theme off floe=Source
4	teach speech: other	present	older orcas	younger ones		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient

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:7.

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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