--- title: Each bottlenose dolphin has its own signature whistle that works lik… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Each bottlenose dolphin has its own signature whistle that works like a name, and friends call each other by copying it, a bit like shouting a mate's name across the playground. Who acts: bottlenose dolphin, own signature whistle, friends, 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 (bottlenose dolphin, own signature whistle, friends, dolphin), 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:2 # text = Each bottlenose dolphin has its own signature whistle that works like a name, and friends call each other by copying it, a bit like shouting a mate's name across the playground. # 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): no change 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 bottlenose bottlenose NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 signature signature NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 17 obj _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 fixed _ _ 20 by by SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 copying copy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 like like SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 across across ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | each bottlenose dolphin | dolphin's own signature whistle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | | 2 | **work** | present | dolphin's own signature whistle | | | | | like a name | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present | friends | each | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | | 4 | **copy** | gerund | friends *not said here* | dolphin | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | each bottlenose dolphin *not said here* | a bit | | the playground | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 6 | **whistle** | | dolphin | | | | | | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **name** | | a mate | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:2`. **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): no change. **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: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/0/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)