--- title: A porpoise is a small sea mammal related to dolphins, with a blunt n… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: A porpoise is a small sea mammal related to dolphins, with a blunt nose; it breathes air through a blowhole and comes up to the surface to breathe. Who acts: porpoise. 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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 (porpoise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:10 # text = A porpoise is a small sea mammal related to dolphins, with a blunt nose; it breathes air through a blowhole and comes up to the surface to breathe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 blunt blunt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 blowhole blowhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:acl 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a porpoise | | | | | to dolphins; with a blunt nose; related *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **breathe** | present | porpoise | air | | a blowhole | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 3 | **come up** | present | porpoise *not said here* | | | the surface | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | porpoise *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:10`. **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 ×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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