Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 3
The blue whale may be the biggest animal that ever lived, up to about 30 metres long, with a heart as heavy as two grown-ups.
Who acts: blue whale, biggest animal · What happens: be, live, grow · To what, where: biggest animal
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 (blue whale, biggest animal), 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 | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 animal | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 7 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 lived | advmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 up | punct |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 lived | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 metres | case |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 30 | advmod |
| 16 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heart | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 heart | det |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 heavy | advmod |
| 24 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heart | amod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 ups | case |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 ups | nummod |
| 27 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ups | amod |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 grown | punct |
| 29 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 heavy | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | may | the blue whale | the biggest animal | with a heart | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | past | the biggest animal | ever | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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