Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 9

Humpbacks blow a spiral net of bubbles around a shoal of fish and then swim up through the middle with mouths open; often several work together.

Who acts: Humpbacks, several · What happens: blow, swim up, work together · To what, where: spiral net, shoal, middle

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 (Humpbacks, several), 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	Humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blow	nsubj
2	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 net	det
4	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 net	amod
5	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blow	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bubbles	case
7	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 net	nmod
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 shoal	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shoal	det
10	shoal	shoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blow	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 fish	case
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoal	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swim	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 swim	advmod
15	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blow	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 swim	compound:prt
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 middle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swim	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 mouths	case
21	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swim	obl
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 swim	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 work	punct
24	often	often	ADV	_	26 work	advmod
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 work	nsubj
26	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blow	parataxis
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 work	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	Humpbacks	a spiral net of bubbles	a shoal of fish			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient
2	swim up	present	Humpbacks not said here		the middle	then	with mouths; open property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory
3	work together	present	several				often, together property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:9.

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): no change. 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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