Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 15

Baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one; blowholes are nostrils that moved to the top of the head over millions of years.

Who acts: Baleen whales, toothed whales, blowholes, nostrils · What happens: have, be, move · To what, where: two blowholes, one, nostrils, millions

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 (Baleen whales, toothed whales, blowholes, nostrils), 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	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 blowholes	nummod
5	blowholes	blowhole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 have	cc
7	toothed	toothed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whales	amod
8	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 have	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 nostrils	punct
12	blowholes	blowhole	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 nostrils	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nostrils	cop
14	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 moved	nsubj
16	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 nostrils	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 moved	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 head	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 head	det
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 top	nmod
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 millions	case
24	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 moved	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 years	case
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 millions	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Baleen whales	two blowholes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient
2	have	present	toothed whales	one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	is a	present	blowholes	nostrils			tree rules
4	move	past	nostrils		millions of years	to the top of the head	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to top=Source over million=Trajectory

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:15.

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): 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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