--- title: Animals communicate with sounds, smells and body movements, but not… — Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited… · tree and pragmatics description: Animals communicate with sounds, smells and body movements, but not with words; scientists are studying whale clicks and other sounds with computers, but no animal has been shown to use a language like ours. Who acts: Animals, scientists. 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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 (Animals, scientists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:18 # text = Animals communicate with sounds, smells and body movements, but not with words; scientists are studying whale clicks and other sounds with computers, but no animal has been shown to use a language like ours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 communicate communicate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 studying study VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 19 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **communicate** | present | Animals | | | | | with sounds and smells and body movements; with words | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with sound=Co-Agent | | 2 | **study** | present · progressive | scientists | whale clicks and other sounds | | | | with computers | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent click=Topic | | 3 | **show** | present · perfect · passive | | no animal | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | | a language | | | | like ours | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient | 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:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real.lesson:18`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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