Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 6

Bottlenose dolphins each have a signature whistle that works like a name, and they remember old friends' whistles for at least 20 years.

Who acts: Bottlenose dolphins, signature whistle, things, old friends · What happens: have, work, remember, whistle · To what, where: signature whistle, whistles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (Bottlenose dolphins, signature whistle, things, old friends), 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	Bottlenose	bottlenose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dolphins	compound
2	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whistle	det
6	signature	signature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whistle	compound
7	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 works	nsubj
9	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whistle	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 name	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 works	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 remember	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	nsubj
16	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 friends	amod
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 whistles	nmod:poss
19	'	's	PART	_	18 friends	case
20	whistles	whistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remember	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 years	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 least	fixed
23	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 20	advmod
24	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 years	nummod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 remember	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bottlenose dolphins	a signature whistle			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	work	present	a signature whistle			like a name	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	present	things = thing	old friends's whistles	year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
4	whistle		old friends				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:6.

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. 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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