Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 10

A newborn blue whale is about 7 metres long and drinks very rich milk, often quoted at about 380 litres a day; whale babies are born live under water, usually tail first.

What happens: be, drink, quote, bear, tail · To what, where: 7 metres, rich milk, 380 litres, whale babies

This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whale	det
2	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whale	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whale	amod
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 metres	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 7	advmod
7	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 metres	nummod
8	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 whale	appos
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 metres	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drinks	cc
11	drinks	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 metres	conj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 rich	advmod
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 milk	amod
14	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drinks	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 quoted	punct
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 quoted	advmod
17	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 milk	acl
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 litres	case
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 380	advmod
20	380	380	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 litres	nummod
21	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 quoted	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 litres	nmod:unmarked
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 born	punct
25	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 babies	compound
26	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 born	nsubj:pass
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 born	aux:pass
28	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 whale	parataxis
29	live	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 born	xcomp
30	under	under	ADP	_	31 water	case
31	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 live	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 tail	punct
33	usually	usually	ADV	_	34 tail	advmod
34	tail	tail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 born	parataxis
35	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 tail	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 whale	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	7 metres		long property	tree rules
2	drink	present	rich milk			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
3	quote speech: other	participle	rich milk not said here	380 litres a day	often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bear	present · passive	whale babies		live property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	tail	present			first, usually property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:049-babies.lesson:10.

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): R1-cc-next ×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.

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