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title: A grey porpoise with a smiling face and no back fin still lives there. — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A grey porpoise with a smiling face and no back fin still lives there. Who acts: grey porpoise. A sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 2

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A grey porpoise with a smiling face and no back fin still lives there.

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**Who acts:** grey porpoise · **What happens:** live

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (grey porpoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:2
# text = A grey porpoise with a smiling face and no back fin still lives there.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	smiling	smiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fin	fin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a grey porpoise with a smiling face and no back fin |  |  | there | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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/).

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