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title: There are real reports of dolphins staying near swimmers in danger,… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are real reports of dolphins staying near swimmers in danger, but dolphins are wild animals with big teeth and can be rough. Who acts: real reports, dolphins. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch
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# Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 11

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There are real reports of dolphins staying near swimmers in danger, but dolphins are wild animals with big teeth and can be rough.

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**Who acts:** real reports, dolphins · **What happens:** be, stay, report · **To what, where:** swimmers, wild animals, dolphins

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» 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 (real reports, dolphins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:11
# text = There are real reports of dolphins staying near swimmers in danger, but dolphins are wild animals with big teeth and can be rough.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.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	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | real reports of dolphins |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | gerund | dolphins *not said here* |  |  | swimmers in danger |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near swimmer=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | dolphins | wild animals |  |  |  | with big teeth | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | can | dolphins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **report** |  |  | dolphins |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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