--- title: Watch a family at the beach: the kids learn tricks from older kids a… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics description: Watch a family at the beach: the kids learn tricks from older kids and grandma knows where the best rock pools are; dolphin and orca groups work in much the same way. Who acts: you, kids, grandma, 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 (you, kids, grandma, dolphin), 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:3 # text = Watch a family at the beach: the kids learn tricks from older kids and grandma knows where the best rock pools are; dolphin and orca groups work in much the same way. # 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 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 11 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 21 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 ccomp _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 orca orca NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:compound 28 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a family | | the beach | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | present | the kids | tricks | | | | from older kids | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent trick=Topic from kid=Source | | 3 | **know** | present | grandma | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the best rock pools | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | dolphin and orca and groups | | | | | in the same way | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=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:3`. **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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