Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 10

The orca, or killer whale, is the biggest member of the dolphin family; different groups eat different food, some only fish, others seals or even other whales.

Who acts: orca, different groups · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: biggest member, different food

This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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 (orca, different groups), 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	2 orca	det
2	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 member	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 whale	punct
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 whale	cc
5	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 whale	compound
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 orca	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 orca	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 member	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 member	det
10	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 member	amod
11	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 family	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 family	det
14	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 family	compound
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 member	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 groups	amod
18	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 member	parataxis
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 food	amod
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fish	punct
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 fish	det
24	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fish	amod
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 food	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 seals	punct
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 seals	compound
28	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 food	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 whales	cc
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 whales	advmod
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 whales	amod
32	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 food	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 member	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 orca or killer whale	the biggest member				of the dolphin family	tree rules
2	eat	present	different groups	different food and some only fish and others seals or other whales					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-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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