Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 7
Dolphins sleep with half of their brain at a time, switching sides, so they can keep coming up to breathe.
Who acts: Dolphins, things · What happens: sleep, switch, keep, come up, breathe
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 (Dolphins, things), 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 | Dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 half | case |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 sleep | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 brain | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brain | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 half | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brain | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sides | punct |
| 12 | switching | switch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sides | amod |
| 13 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 half | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 keep | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sleep | conj |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 breathe | mark |
| 22 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 coming | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | present | Dolphins | with half of things's brain at a time and switching sides | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | switch | gerund | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | keep | can | things = thing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | come up | gerund | things = thing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | breathe | to-infinitive | things = thing not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: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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