Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 7

Baleen is a curtain of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw, made of keratin like fingernails; it sieves krill and small fish out of the water.

Who acts: Baleen, curtain · What happens: be, make, sieve · To what, where: curtain, krill, water

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, curtain), 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	4 curtain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curtain	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 curtain	det
4	curtain	curtain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 hundreds	case
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 curtain	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 plates	case
8	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 side	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 side	det
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plates	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 jaw	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jaw	det
14	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 jaw	amod
15	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 side	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 curtain	punct
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 keratin	case
19	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 fingernails	case
21	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keratin	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sieves	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sieves	nsubj
24	sieves	sieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 made	conj
25	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sieves	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fish	cc
27	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fish	amod
28	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 krill	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 water	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 water	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sieves	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 curtain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Baleen	a curtain		of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw	tree rules
2	make	past	a curtain			of keratin like fingernails	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	sieve	present	curtain	krill and small fish	the water		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

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:7.

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): R6-punct-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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