--- title: A dolphin is a small toothed whale with one blowhole, about 80 to 10… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: A dolphin is a small toothed whale with one blowhole, about 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth it never chews with, and a brain that can sleep one half at a time while the other half keeps watch and remembers to breathe. Who acts: dolphin, brain, other 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 (dolphin, brain, other half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:0 # text = A dolphin is a small toothed whale with one blowhole, about 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth it never chews with, and a brain that can sleep one half at a time while the other half keeps watch and remembers to breathe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 toothed toothed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 blowhole blowhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case 15 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 chews chew VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 30 obj _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 nsubj _ _ 40 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 41 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a dolphin | a small toothed whale and a brain | | | | with one blowhole | tree rules | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **not** **chew with** | present | dolphin | 80 cone shaped teeth *not said here* | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **sleep** | can | a brain | one half | | | time | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | present | the other half | watch | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | | 6 | **remember** | present | the other half *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | the other half *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:0`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Whales, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/17/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)