Migration: the great journeys, sentence 10

Humpback whales swim thousands of kilometres between cold feeding waters near the poles and warm seas where they have their calves, eating almost nothing while in warm water.

Who acts: Humpback whales, whales · What happens: swim, have, eat · To what, where: thousands, calves, nothing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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 (Humpback 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	Humpback	humpback	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whales	amod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	nsubj
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 kilometres	case
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 waters	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 waters	amod
9	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 waters	compound
10	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 poles	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 poles	det
13	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 waters	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seas	cc
15	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 seas	amod
16	seas	seas	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 poles	conj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 have	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seas	acl:relcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 calves	nmod:poss
21	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 eating	punct
23	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 swim	conj
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	25 nothing	advmod
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	23 eating	obj
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 water	mark
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 water	amod
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eating	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swim	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swim	present	Humpback whales	thousands of kilometres	between cold feeding waters near the poles and warm seas	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory
2	have	present	whales = whale	whales's calves		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
3	eat	gerund	Humpback whales not said here	nothing		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.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): R5-strong ×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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