Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 14

The minke is the smallest of the big baleen whales, about 7 to 10 metres long, and is the whale most often seen near boats around Britain in summer.

Who acts: minke, whale · What happens: be · To what, where: big baleen whales, boats

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 (minke, whale), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 minke	det
2	minke	minke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smallest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smallest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smallest	det
5	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 whales	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 whales	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whales	amod
9	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whales	compound
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smallest	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 metres	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 7	advmod
13	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 metres	nummod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 10	case
15	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 7	nmod
16	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 smallest	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 metres	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seen	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seen	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 seen	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 whale	det
22	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	nsubj
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 often	advmod
24	often	often	ADV	_	25 seen	advmod
25	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 whales	acl:relcl
26	near	near	ADP	_	27 boats	case
27	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 seen	obl
28	around	around	ADP	_	29 Britain	case
29	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 boats	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 summer	case
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seen	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 smallest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the minke					of the big baleen whales; 7 metres obl:unmarked; small property	tree rules
2	is	present	the whale	the big baleen whales not said here		boats around Britain	summer	often, see property	tree rules

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:14.

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. 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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