--- title: Some people say dolphins can tell if a woman is going to have a baby… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics description: Some people say dolphins can tell if a woman is going to have a baby by echoes; dolphin clicks do pass a little way into a body, but this has not been properly proven. Who acts: people, dolphins, woman, dolphin clicks. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, dolphins, woman, dolphin clicks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:15 # text = Some people say dolphins can tell if a woman is going to have a baby by echoes; dolphin clicks do pass a little way into a body, but this has not been properly proven. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 32 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 properly properly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 proven prove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | dolphins | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | a woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | a woman *not said here* | a baby | | | | by echoes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | | 5 | **pass** | present · do-support | dolphin clicks | a little way | | a body | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent way=Theme into body=Destination | | 6 | **not** **prove** | present · perfect · passive | | this | | | | properly *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.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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