Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 15
There are about 24 kinds of beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale holds the record dive for a mammal, about 3 kilometres deep and over 3 hours long.
Who acts: 24 kinds, beaked whale · What happens: be about, hold · To what, where: record dive
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 (24 kinds, beaked whale), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 24 | advmod |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 kinds | nummod |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 whale | case |
| 7 | beaked | beaked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 whale | amod |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 holds | punct |
| 10 | Cuvier | Cuvier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 whale | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Cuvier | case |
| 12 | beaked | beaked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whale | amod |
| 13 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holds | nsubj |
| 14 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dive | det |
| 16 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dive | compound |
| 17 | dive | dive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holds | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 mammal | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mammal | det |
| 20 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dive | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 deep | punct |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 3 | advmod |
| 23 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 kilometres | nummod |
| 24 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 holds | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 long | cc |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 3 | advmod |
| 28 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 hours | nummod |
| 29 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 long | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 deep | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be about | present | 24 kinds of beaked whale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | Cuvier's beaked whale | the record dive | for a mammal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dive=Theme |
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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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