The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 2
A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water full of krill, then pushes the water out through comb-like plates and swallows the krill, like straining pasta in a sieve.
Who acts: blue whale · What happens: open, gulp, push out, swallow, strain · To what, where: mouth, pool load, water, like plates, krill, pasta
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (blue whale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | nsubj |
| 4 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opens | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gulps | punct |
| 8 | gulps | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opens | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 load | det |
| 10 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pool | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 swimming | punct |
| 12 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 load | compound |
| 13 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gulps | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 load | nmod |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 water | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 krill | case |
| 18 | krill | krill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pushes | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 pushes | advmod |
| 21 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 opens | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pushes | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 pushes | compound:prt |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 plates | case |
| 26 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 like | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 like | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 plates | amod |
| 29 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pushes | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 swallows | cc |
| 31 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pushes | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 krill | det |
| 33 | krill | krill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 swallows | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 straining | punct |
| 35 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 36 straining | mark |
| 36 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 swallows | conj |
| 37 | pasta | pasta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 straining | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 sieve | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 sieve | det |
| 40 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 straining | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | a blue whale | whale's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gulp | present | a blue whale not said here | a pool load of water | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient | ||||
| 3 | push out | present | a blue whale not said here | the water | like plates | then | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme through plate=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | swallow | present | a blue whale not said here | the krill | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient | ||||
| 5 | strain | gerund | a blue whale not said here | pasta | a sieve | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme |
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, 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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:2.
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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