--- title: A dolphin lives in the sea and has fins, but it breathes air and fee… — Groups of animals and how to tell them apart · tree and pragmatics description: A dolphin lives in the sea and has fins, but it breathes air and feeds its baby milk, so it is a mammal, not a fish. Who acts: dolphin. 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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 (dolphin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:4 # text = A dolphin lives in the sea and has fins, but it breathes air and feeds its baby milk, so it is a mammal, not a fish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 024-animal-groups.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mammal mammal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | a dolphin | | | the sea | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | a dolphin *not said here* | fins | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient | | 3 | **breathe** | present | dolphin | air | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | present | dolphin *not said here* | dolphin's baby milk | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | dolphin | a mammal | | | | a fish *nmod* | tree rules | 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:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Groups of animals and how to tell them…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/3/) - next →: [Groups of animals and how to tell them…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/24-animal-groups/)