The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 4

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived, bigger than any dinosaur; its heart is about the size of a bumper car at a fair, and its calls can travel hundreds of kilometres, but its throat is far too narrow to swallow anything as big as a person.

Who acts: blue whale, biggest animal, heart, calls, throat, whale · What happens: be, live, travel, swallow, call · To what, where: biggest animal, size, hundreds, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

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, biggest animal, heart, calls), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 animal	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bigger	punct
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 animal	amod
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 dinosaur	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 dinosaur	det
16	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bigger	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 size	punct
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 heart	nmod:poss
19	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 size	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 size	cop
21	about	about	ADV	_	23 size	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 size	det
23	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 car	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 car	det
26	bumper	bumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 car	compound
27	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 size	nmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 fair	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fair	det
30	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 car	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 travel	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 travel	cc
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 calls	nmod:poss
34	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 travel	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 travel	aux
36	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 size	conj
37	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 travel	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 kilometres	case
39	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hundreds	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 narrow	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 narrow	cc
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 throat	nmod:poss
43	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 narrow	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 narrow	cop
45	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 narrow	advmod
46	too	too	ADV	_	47 narrow	advmod
47	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 travel	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 swallow	mark
49	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 narrow	advcl
50	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 swallow	obj
51	as	as	ADV	_	52 big	advmod
52	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 anything	amod
53	as	as	ADP	_	55 person	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 person	det
55	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 big	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the blue whale	the biggest animal			tree rules
2	live	present · perfect	the biggest animal		ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	whale's heart	the size		of a bumper car at a fair; about property	tree rules
4	travel	can	whale's calls	hundreds of kilometres			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Trajectory
5	is	present	whale's throat			far, narrow property	tree rules
6	swallow	to-infinitive	whale's throat not said here	anything			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
7	call		whale				nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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, 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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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