--- title: Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals,… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics description: Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals, and some countries have banned dolphin shows. Who acts: Many people, tanks, countries. A sentence of the lesson «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/15/) [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/) / [Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca gr…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs/) / 15 # Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs, sentence 15 Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals, and some countries have banned dolphin shows. **Who acts:** Many people, tanks, countries · **What happens:** think, be, swim, ban · **To what, where:** dolphin shows · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Many people, tanks, countries), 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:15 # text = Many people think tanks are too small for such far-swimming animals, and some countries have banned dolphin shows. # 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 ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis 20 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 shows show NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Many people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | tanks | | | | | for such swimming animals; small *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **swim** | gerund | | | | | | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **ban** | present · perfect | some countries | dolphin shows | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer show=Theme | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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