--- title: Cartoons show a dolphin always smiling and a seal clapping and balan… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show a dolphin always smiling and a seal clapping and balancing a ball; the «smile» is just the shape of a dolphin's mouth, not a happy face, and the clapping seal is a trained sea lion, not what wild seals do. Who acts: Cartoons, dolphin, seal, smile. 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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 (Cartoons, dolphin, seal, smile), 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:4 # text = Cartoons show a dolphin always smiling and a seal clapping and balancing a ball; the «smile» is just the shape of a dolphin's mouth, not a happy face, and the clapping seal is a trained sea lion, not what wild seals do. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 smiling smile VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 clapping clapping VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 balancing balance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 26 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:nmod 34 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 clapping clapping NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=43:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 42 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 46 advmod _ _ 46 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 conj _ _ 47 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 49 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Cartoons | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **smile** | gerund | a dolphin | | | | | always *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **clapping** | gerund | a seal | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **balance** | gerund | a seal *not said here* | a ball | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ball=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | the smile | the shape | | | | of a dolphin's mouth and a happy face | tree rules | | 6 | **train** | participle | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | the clapping seal | a trained sea lion | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | present | wild seals | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «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:4`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/2/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)