Whales, sentence 1
Stand under the life-size blue whale model hanging in a museum: about 30 metres long, about as long as two and a half buses, around 150 tonnes, with one heart weighing about 180 kilograms, the biggest animal ever known.
Who acts: you, size blue whale model, two half buses · What happens: stand, hang, weigh, know · To what, where: museum, 180 kilograms, biggest animal
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales» 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 (you, size blue whale model, two half buses), 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 | Stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 model | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 model | det |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 size | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 life | punct |
| 6 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 model | compound |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 model | amod |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 model | compound |
| 9 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stand | obl |
| 10 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 model | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 museum | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 museum | det |
| 13 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hanging | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 metres | punct |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 30 | advmod |
| 16 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 hanging | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 long | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 two | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 buses | nummod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 buses | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 half | det |
| 27 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 28 buses | compound |
| 28 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tonnes | punct |
| 30 | around | around | ADV | _ | 31 150 | advmod |
| 31 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 tonnes | nummod |
| 32 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 buses | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 weighing | punct |
| 34 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 37 weighing | mark |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 heart | nummod |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 weighing | compound |
| 37 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 buses | acl |
| 38 | about | about | ADV | _ | 39 180 | advmod |
| 39 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 kilograms | nummod |
| 40 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 weighing | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 animal | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 animal | det |
| 43 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 animal | amod |
| 44 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 weighing | obl |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 46 known | advmod |
| 46 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 animal | acl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | under the size blue whale model | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under model=Location | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | the size blue whale model not said here | a museum | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in museum=Location | |||
| 3 | weigh | gerund | two half buses and 150 tonnes not said here | 180 kilograms | the biggest animal obl | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | |||
| 4 | know | participle | the biggest animal not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:026-whales.lesson:1.
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 ×2, 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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