The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 8

Blue whales and humpbacks have no teeth: rows of baleen plates hang from the top jaw and sieve tiny krill and small fish out of huge mouthfuls of water, a bit like the sailor's grating.

Who acts: Blue whales, rows · What happens: have, hang, sieve · To what, where: teeth, top jaw, tiny krill, huge mouthfuls

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Blue whales, rows), 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	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whales	amod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 humpbacks	cc
4	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whales	conj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 teeth	det
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 hang	punct
9	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hang	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 plates	case
11	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plates	compound
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rows	nmod
13	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 jaw	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jaw	det
16	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jaw	amod
17	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hang	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sieve	cc
19	sieve	sieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hang	conj
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 krill	amod
21	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sieve	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fish	cc
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fish	amod
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 krill	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 mouthfuls	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 mouthfuls	case
27	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mouthfuls	amod
28	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sieve	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 water	case
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mouthfuls	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bit	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mouthfuls	conj
34	like	like	ADP	_	38 grating	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sailor	det
36	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grating	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 sailor	case
38	grating	grating	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Blue whales and humpbacks	no teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	hang	present	rows of baleen plates		the top jaw	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sieve	infinitive	rows of baleen plates not said here	tiny krill and small fish	huge mouthfuls of water and a bit like the sailor's grating	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:8.

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): R8-pos-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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