--- title: Belugas are white Arctic whales that whistle and chirp, called «sea… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmin… · tree and pragmatics description: Belugas are white Arctic whales that whistle and chirp, called «sea canaries»; many people now think whales should not live in tanks, and some belugas were moved to a sea sanctuary. Who acts: Belugas, white Arctic whales, many people, whales. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Belugas, white Arctic whales, many people, whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:15 # text = Belugas are white Arctic whales that whistle and chirp, called «sea canaries»; many people now think whales should not live in tanks, and some belugas were moved to a sea sanctuary. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Belugas beluga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 whistle whistle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 chirp chirp VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 canaries canary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 xcomp _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 now now ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 tanks tank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 belugas beluga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 moved move VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 sanctuary sanctuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Belugas | white Arctic whales | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **whistle** | present | white Arctic whales | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **chirp** | present | white Arctic whales *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | participle | white Arctic whales *not said here* | sea canaries | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | many people | | | | now | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **not** **live** | should | whales | | | tanks | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location | | 7 | **move** | past · passive | | some belugas | | a sea sanctuary | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to sanctuary=Trajectory | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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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