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title: Whales and dolphins are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and fee… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Whales and dolphins are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and feed their young milk. Who acts: Whales, dolphins. A sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Classifying unusual animals, sentence 6

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Whales and dolphins are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and feed their young milk.

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**Who acts:** Whales, dolphins · **What happens:** be, breathe, feed · **To what, where:** mammals, air, young milk

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 (Whales, dolphins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:6
# text = Whales and dolphins are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and feed their young milk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 029-classifying-unusual-animals.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	Whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Whales and dolphins | mammals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | dolphins *= dolphin* | air |  |  |  | with lungs | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 3 | **feed** | present | dolphins *= dolphin* *not said here* | dolphins's young milk |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:6`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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