--- title: A dolphin's echoes can tell whether an object is hollow or solid, so… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics description: A dolphin's echoes can tell whether an object is hollow or solid, so it can find a hidden ring in water too cloudy to see through. Who acts: echoes, object. A sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Echolocation in the sea and in people:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/) / 5 # Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans, sentence 5 A dolphin's echoes can tell whether an object is hollow or solid, so it can find a hidden ring in water too cloudy to see through. **Who acts:** echoes, object · **What happens:** tell, be, find, see through · **To what, where:** hidden ring, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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 (echoes, object), 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:5 # text = A dolphin's echoes can tell whether an object is hollow or solid, so it can find a hidden ring in water too cloudy to see through. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 object object NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 28 through through ADV RB _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | a dolphin's echoes | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | a object | | | | | hollow *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | a object *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | can | object | a hidden ring | | water | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | | 5 | **see through** | to-infinitive | object *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Echolocation in the sea and in people:…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/3/) - next →: [Echolocation in the sea and in people:…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/)