Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 2

The sperm whale, with its huge square head, dives into the black deep to hunt squid; the orca is the biggest dolphin; the white beluga chirps among the Arctic ice.

Who acts: sperm whale, orca, white beluga · What happens: dive, hunt, be, chirp · To what, where: black deep, squid, biggest dolphin

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 (sperm whale, orca, white beluga), 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	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dives	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whale	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 head	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
8	square	square	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 head	amod
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whale	punct
11	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 deep	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 deep	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 deep	amod
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dives	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hunt	mark
17	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 dives	advcl
18	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hunt	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 dolphin	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 orca	det
21	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dolphin	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dolphin	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dolphin	det
24	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 dolphin	amod
25	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dives	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 chirps	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 beluga	det
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 beluga	amod
29	beluga	beluga	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chirps	nsubj
30	chirps	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 dives	conj
31	among	among	ADP	_	34 ice	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ice	det
33	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ice	amod
34	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chirps	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dive	present	the sperm whale		the black deep		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into deep=Location
2	hunt	to-infinitive	the sperm whale not said here	squid			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme
3	is a	present	the orca	the biggest dolphin			tree rules
4	chirp	present	the white beluga			among the Arctic ice	vn animal_sounds-38 «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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:2.

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 ×2. 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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