--- title: People hunted whales for oil and meat until the 1980s, when most wha… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics description: People hunted whales for oil and meat until the 1980s, when most whaling stopped; since then humpback numbers in some places have recovered greatly. Who acts: People, most whaling, humpback numbers. A sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colos…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/) / 10 # The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 10 People hunted whales for oil and meat until the 1980s, when most whaling stopped; since then humpback numbers in some places have recovered greatly. **Who acts:** People, most whaling, humpback numbers · **What happens:** hunt, stop, recover · **To what, where:** whales This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (People, most whaling, humpback numbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:10 # text = People hunted whales for oil and meat until the 1980s, when most whaling stopped; since then humpback numbers in some places have recovered greatly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hunted hunt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 until until ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 1980s 1980s NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 14 whaling whaling NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 17 since since ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 obl _ _ 19 humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 26 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past | People | whales | | | until the 1980s | for oil and meat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whale=Location for oil=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | past | most whaling | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **recover** | present · perfect | humpback numbers in some places | | | | | greatly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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](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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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