--- title: Think of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV: the boat sends a… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV: the boat sends a ping and times the echo, a trick dolphins had for millions of years before us. Who acts: you, boat, dolphins. 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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 (you, boat, dolphins), 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:3 # text = Think of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV: the boat sends a ping and times the echo, a trick dolphins had for millions of years before us. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 sonar sonar NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sends send VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 ping ping NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 times time VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 before before ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of the sonar screen on a fishing boat on TV | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **send** | present | the boat | a ping | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ping=Destination echo=Theme | | 3 | **time** | present | the boat *not said here* | | | | | | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | dolphins | a trick *not said here* | | | before us | for millions of years | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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](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:3`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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