Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 6

Sperm whales dive over 2 kilometres deep, often for an hour or more, hunting squid; they store oxygen in their blood and muscles.

Who acts: Sperm whales, whales · What happens: dive, hunt, store · To what, where: 2 kilometres, squid, oxygen, blood

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 whales, whales), 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	Sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whales	compound
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dive	nsubj
3	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	5 2	advmod
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dive	obl:unmarked
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kilometres	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hour	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	12 hour	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dive	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 more	cc
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 hour	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hunting	punct
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dive	advcl
17	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hunting	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 oxygen	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 store	nsubj
20	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dive	parataxis
21	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 store	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 blood	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 blood	nmod:poss
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 store	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 muscles	cc
26	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 blood	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dive	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dive	present	Sperm whales	2 kilometres		hour	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	hunt	gerund	Sperm whales not said here	squid			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme
3	store	present	whales = whale	oxygen	whales's blood and muscles		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in blood=Location

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:6.

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 ×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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