Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 5

Each kind has its own trick: humpbacks blow nets of bubbles, grey whales suck mud from the seabed, fin whales race like greyhounds, and every whale's spout has its own shape.

Who acts: kind, humpbacks, grey whales, fin whales, spout · What happens: have, blow, suck, race, trick · To what, where: own trick, nets, mud, seabed, own shape

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 (kind, humpbacks, grey whales, fin whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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