Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 8
Dolphins ride the waves made by boats and whales, which saves energy and seems to be fun for them.
Who acts: Dolphins · What happens: ride, make, save, seem, be · To what, where: waves, energy
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), 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 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 waves | det |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ride | obj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 waves | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 boats | case |
| 7 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whales | cc |
| 9 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boats | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saves | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 saves | nsubj |
| 12 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ride | parataxis |
| 13 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saves | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seems | cc |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 saves | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fun | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fun | cop |
| 18 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fun | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | Dolphins | the waves | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the waves not said here | by boats and whales | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | save | present | energy | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seem | present | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | for things = thing; fun property | tree rules |
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:8.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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