--- title: Dolphins rest one half of their brain at a time, keeping the other h… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics description: Dolphins rest one half of their brain at a time, keeping the other half awake to breathe and watch out, because a dolphin must choose to come up and breathe or it would drown, with the eye on the awake side open. Who acts: Dolphins, dolphin, half. 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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 (Dolphins, dolphin, half), 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:12 # text = Dolphins rest one half of their brain at a time, keeping the other half awake to breathe and watch out, because a dolphin must choose to come up and breathe or it would drown, with the eye on the awake side open. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rest rest VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 12 obj _ _ 16 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 45 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:xcomp 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | present | Dolphins | one half of Dolphins's brain | | | time | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | gerund | Dolphins *not said here* | the other half | | | | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 3 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | Dolphins *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch out** | infinitive | Dolphins *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **choose** | must | a dolphin | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come up** | to-infinitive | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **breathe** | infinitive | a dolphin *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **drown** | would | half | the eye | | the awake side | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:12`. **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. **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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