Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 12

Grey whales feed by sucking mud from the seabed and sifting out small creatures; in Mexican lagoons some now come up to boats and let people touch them, though whalers once called them devil fish.

Who acts: Grey whales, some, people, whalers · What happens: feed, suck, sift out, come up, let, touch · To what, where: mud, seabed, small creatures, Mexican lagoons, people, whales · Speech: someone speaks here

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, some, people, whalers), 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 feed	nsubj
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 sucking	mark
5	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 feed	advcl
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sucking	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 seabed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seabed	det
9	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sucking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sifting	cc
11	sifting	sift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sucking	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 sifting	compound:prt
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 creatures	amod
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sifting	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 lagoons	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 lagoons	case
17	Mexican	Mexican	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lagoons	amod
18	lagoons	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 come	nsubj
20	now	now	ADV	_	21 come	advmod
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feed	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 come	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 boats	case
24	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 come	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 come	conj
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 let	obj
28	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 touch	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whalers	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 called	mark
32	whalers	whaler	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 called	nsubj
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 called	advmod
34	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 come	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 called	obj
36	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fish	compound
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 called	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Grey whales					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	suck	gerund	Grey whales not said here	mud	the seabed			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mud=Theme from seabed=Source
3	sift out	gerund	Grey whales not said here	small creatures				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient
4	come up	present	some		Mexican lagoons	now	to boats	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to boat=Initial_Location
5	let	infinitive	some not said here	people				tree rules
6	touch	infinitive	people not said here	whales = whale				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
7	call	past	whalers	whales = whale			once property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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