Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 8
The fin whale is the second biggest animal, about 20 to 25 metres long, and so fast it is called the greyhound of the sea; its lower jaw is white on the right side and dark on the left.
Who acts: fin whale, lower jaw · What happens: be, call · To what, where: second biggest animal, animal, right side, left · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fin whale, lower jaw), 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 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | compound |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 animal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 animal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 animal | amod |
| 7 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 animal | amod |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | punct |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 20 | advmod |
| 11 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 25 | case |
| 13 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 14 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 long | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 animal | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fast | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animal | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 called | aux:pass |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fast | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 greyhound | det |
| 24 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 greyhound | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 white | punct |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 30 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 jaw | amod |
| 31 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 white | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 white | cop |
| 33 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 called | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 side | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 side | det |
| 36 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 side | amod |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 white | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 dark | cc |
| 39 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 white | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 left | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 left | det |
| 42 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dark | obl |
| 43 | . | . | 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 | present | the fin whale | the second biggest animal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the fin whale not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | animal | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | animal's lower jaw | the right side | white property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | animal's lower jaw not said here | the left | tree rules |
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:8.
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 ×4. 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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