--- title: The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out. Who acts: baiji. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [China's great rivers: the finless porp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/) / 4 # China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 4 The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out. **Who acts:** baiji · **What happens:** find, send, listen, drown out · **To what, where:** fish, clicks, ship engines 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 (baiji), 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:4 # text = The baiji found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engines may have drowned them out. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baiji baiji NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 by by SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 engines engine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 18 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the baiji | fish | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 2 | **send** | gerund | the baiji *not said here* | clicks | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent click=Theme | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | the baiji *not said here* | | | | | for echoes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for echo=Theme | | 4 | **drown out** | may · perfect · passive | | ship engines | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient they=Result | 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. 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