Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 6
The blue whale may be the biggest animal that has ever lived, up to about 30 metres long; its heart weighs about 180 kilograms and on a dive can beat as slowly as two beats a minute, a study reported.
Who acts: blue whale, biggest animal, heart, study · What happens: be, live, weigh, beat, report · To what, where: biggest animal, 180 kilograms
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, heart, study), 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 | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | aux |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 lived | advmod |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 animal | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 lived | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 metres | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 30 | advmod |
| 17 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 metres | nummod |
| 18 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 long | obl |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 weighs | punct |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weighs | nsubj |
| 23 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | parataxis |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 180 | advmod |
| 25 | 180 | 180 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 kilograms | nummod |
| 26 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 weighs | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dive | cc |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 dive | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dive | det |
| 30 | dive | dive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kilograms | conj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 beat | aux |
| 32 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 weighs | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 slowly | advmod |
| 34 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 32 beat | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 beats | mark |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 beats | nummod |
| 37 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 slowly | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 minute | det |
| 39 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 beats | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 minute | punct |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 study | det |
| 42 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 reported | nsubj |
| 43 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 beats | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 reported | 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 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present · perfect | the biggest animal | ever | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | weigh | present | animal's heart | 180 kilograms and a dive | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | ||||
| 4 | beat | can | animal's heart not said here | slowly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | beat | present | animal's heart not said here | minute | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | report | past | a study | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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