Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 11

Grey whales swim about 16,000 to 20,000 kilometres there and back each year, feeding in the Arctic in summer and having babies in warm lagoons in Mexico in winter.

Who acts: Grey whales · What happens: swim, feed, have · To what, where: Arctic, babies, warm lagoons

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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 (Grey whales), 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	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whales	amod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	nsubj
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
5	16,000	16,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kilometres	nummod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 20,000	case
7	20,000	20,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 16,000	nmod
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obl
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 swim	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 back	cc
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 there	conj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feeding	punct
15	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swim	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 Arctic	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Arctic	det
18	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 feeding	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 summer	case
20	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 feeding	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 having	cc
22	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 feeding	conj
23	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 having	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 lagoons	case
25	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lagoons	amod
26	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 having	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Mexico	case
28	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 lagoons	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 winter	case
30	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 having	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Grey whales		there	year	about 16,000 kilometres	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about kilometre=Trajectory
2	feed	gerund	Grey whales not said here		the Arctic	summer		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arctic=Location
3	have	gerund	Grey whales not said here	babies	warm lagoons in Mexico	winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.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): 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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