--- title: Bottlenose dolphins each have a signature whistle that works like a… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Bottlenose dolphins each have a signature whistle that works like a name, and they remember old friends' whistles for at least 20 years. Who acts: Bottlenose dolphins, signature whistle, things, old friends. 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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 dolphins, signature whistle, things, old friends), 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:6 # text = Bottlenose dolphins each have a signature whistle that works like a name, and they remember old friends' whistles for at least 20 years. # 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 1 Bottlenose bottlenose NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 signature signature NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obj 19 ' 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 21 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 23 least least ADV RBS Degree=Sup 24 advmod _ _ 24 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Bottlenose dolphins | a signature whistle | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | | 2 | **work** | present | a signature whistle | | | | | like a name | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **remember** | present | things *= thing* | old friends's whistles | | | year | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme | | 4 | **whistle** | | old friends | | | | | | nom whistle «event intransitive»: 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/5/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)