Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 11
The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived, but not the biggest living thing.
Who acts: blue whale, biggest animal · What happens: be, live · To what, where: biggest animal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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), 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 | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 thing | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 thing | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 16 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 thing | amod |
| 17 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | compound |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animal | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the blue whale | the biggest animal but the biggest living thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | the biggest animal but the biggest living thing | ever | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:11.
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 ×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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