Whales, sentence 8

Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales have no teeth, but baleen plates that sieve krill and small fish from huge mouthfuls of water; a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person.

Who acts: Baleen whales, baleen plates, throat · What happens: have, sieve, be, swallow · To what, where: teeth, krill, person

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 (Baleen whales, baleen plates, throat), 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	Baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whales	compound
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 humpbacks	case
4	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whales	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 whales	cc
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whales	amod
7	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 humpbacks	conj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 teeth	det
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plates	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 plates	cc
13	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plates	compound
14	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sieve	nsubj
16	sieve	sieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 plates	acl:relcl
17	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sieve	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fish	cc
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 krill	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 mouthfuls	case
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mouthfuls	amod
23	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sieve	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mouthfuls	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 narrow	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 whale	det
28	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 whale	amod
29	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 throat	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 whale	case
31	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 narrow	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 narrow	cop
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 narrow	advmod
34	too	too	ADV	_	35 narrow	advmod
35	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 have	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 swallow	mark
37	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 narrow	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 person	det
39	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 swallow	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales	no teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	sieve	present	baleen plates	krill and small fish	from huge mouthfuls of water	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent krill=Patient from mouthful=Co-Patient
3	is	present	a blue whale's throat		far, narrow property	tree rules
4	swallow	to-infinitive	a blue whale's throat not said here	a person		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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