Whales, sentence 2

A whale breathes through a blowhole on top of its head, and the tall spout is warm wet breath turning to mist, the way your breath steams on a frosty morning.

Who acts: whale, tall spout, warm wet breath, breath · What happens: breathe, be, turn, steam · To what, where: blowhole, warm wet breath, mist, way

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 (whale, tall spout, warm wet breath, breath), 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	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathes	nsubj
3	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 blowhole	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blowhole	det
6	blowhole	blowhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathes	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 top	case
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blowhole	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 breath	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 breath	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spout	det
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spout	amod
16	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 breath	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 breath	cop
18	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
19	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
20	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathes	conj
21	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 breath	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 mist	case
23	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turning	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 way	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mist	appos
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 breath	nmod:poss
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steams	nsubj
29	steams	steam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 way	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 morning	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 morning	det
32	frosty	frosty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 morning	amod
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steams	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breathes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	breathe	present	a whale		a blowhole on top of whale's head		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the tall spout	warm wet breath			tree rules
3	turn	gerund	warm wet breath not said here		mist		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mist=Trajectory
4	steam	present	your breath	the way not said here		morning	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Patient

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: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): no change. 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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