Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 15

Dolphins rest one half of their brain at a time, so they can keep breathing and watching.

Who acts: Dolphins · What happens: rest, keep, breathe, watch · To what, where: one half

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 rest	nsubj
2	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 half	nummod
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 rest	obj
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	2 rest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 keep	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 keep	aux
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 rest	conj
16	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 keep	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 watching	cc
18	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 breathing	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rest	present	Dolphins	one half of Dolphins's brain	time	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=Theme
2	keep	can	Dolphins = dolphin			tree rules
3	breathe	gerund	Dolphins = dolphin not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	gerund	Dolphins = dolphin not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:15.

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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