Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 10
Dolphins also find food by using echoes.
Who acts: Dolphins · What happens: find, use · To what, where: food, echoes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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 | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 find | advmod |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 using | mark |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 find | advcl |
| 7 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 using | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Dolphins | food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | Dolphins not said here | echoes | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |
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:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:10.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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