--- title: Dolphins blow rings of air underwater and play with them, pushing an… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics description: Dolphins blow rings of air underwater and play with them, pushing and splitting them, and humpbacks blow spiral bubble nets to trap fish. Who acts: Dolphins, humpbacks. 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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, humpbacks), 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:13 # text = Dolphins blow rings of air underwater and play with them, pushing and splitting them, and humpbacks blow spiral bubble nets to trap fish. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 underwater underwater NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 splitting split VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 spiral spiral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 bubble bubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 trap trap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:acl 25 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 . . 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 | **blow** | present | Dolphins | rings air of underwater | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent ring=Patient | | 2 | **play** | present | Dolphins *not said here* | | | | | with Dolphins *= dolphin* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme | | 3 | **push** | gerund | Dolphins *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **split** | gerund | Dolphins *not said here* | Dolphins *= dolphin* | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **blow** | present | humpbacks | spiral bubble nets | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient | | 6 | **trap** | to-infinitive | humpbacks *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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