--- title: The Guiana dolphin has small pits on its snout, left where its baby… — Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the plat… · tree and pragmatics description: The Guiana dolphin has small pits on its snout, left where its baby whiskers were, that feel electric fields; it was the first dolphin found with this sense, in 2011. Who acts: Guiana dolphin, baby whiskers, small pits, dolphin. 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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 (Guiana dolphin, baby whiskers, small pits, dolphin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.lesson:15 # text = The Guiana dolphin has small pits on its snout, left where its baby whiskers were, that feel electric fields; it was the first dolphin found with this sense, in 2011. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Guiana Guiana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 15 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 20 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 27 amod _ _ 27 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 28 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 2011 2011 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the Guiana dolphin | small pits | | dolphin's snout | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | small pits *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | past | dolphin's baby whiskers | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | present | small pits | electric fields | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | dolphin | the first dolphin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **find** | participle | | the first dolphin *not said here* | | 2011 | | with this sense | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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](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:231-electric-senses-eels-sharks-the-platypus-and-charged-bees.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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