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title: The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics
description: The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys. Who acts: vaquita. A sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 12

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The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.

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**Who acts:** vaquita · **What happens:** be, report · **To what, where:** rarest sea mammal, ten, recent surveys

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (vaquita), 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:12
# text = The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vaquita	vaquita	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	around	around	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the vaquita | the rarest sea mammal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | ten |  | recent surveys |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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: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 ×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/).

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