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title: A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets on… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics
description: A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole. Who acts: bottlenose dolphin. 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
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# Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 9

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A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.

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**Who acts:** bottlenose dolphin · **What happens:** have, shape, get, swallow · **To what, where:** 80 shaped teeth, one set, fish

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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 (bottlenose 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:9
# text = A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	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	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a bottlenose dolphin | 80 shaped teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **get** | present | a bottlenose dolphin *not said here* | one set |  |  |  | for life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent set=Theme for life=Source |
| 4 | **swallow** | present | a bottlenose dolphin *not said here* | fish |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:9`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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/).

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