The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 9
The sperm whale and the orca have teeth, while the blue whale and the humpback have baleen plates for straining small food from the water; baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one.
Who acts: sperm whale, blue whale, baleen whales, toothed whales · What happens: have, strain · To what, where: teeth, baleen plates, small food, water, two blowholes, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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, blue whale, baleen whales, toothed 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 | 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 | 7 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 orca | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 orca | det |
| 6 | orca | orca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | conj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 whale | det |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whale | amod |
| 13 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 humpback | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 humpback | det |
| 16 | humpback | humpback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whale | conj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | advcl |
| 18 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plates | compound |
| 19 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 straining | mark |
| 21 | straining | strain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 have | advcl |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 food | amod |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 straining | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 straining | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 28 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whales | compound |
| 29 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | parataxis |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 blowholes | nummod |
| 32 | blowholes | blowhole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 have | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 34 | toothed | toothed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 whales | amod |
| 35 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | conj |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the sperm whale and the orca | teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the blue whale and the humpback | baleen plates | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | ||||
| 3 | strain | gerund | the blue whale and the humpback not said here | small food | the water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from water=Source | |||
| 4 | have | present | baleen whales | two blowholes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have | present | toothed whales | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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): 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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