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title: A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water fu… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid… · tree and pragmatics
description: A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water full of krill, then pushes the water out through comb-like plates and swallows the krill, like straining pasta in a sieve. Who acts: blue whale. A sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under 
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# The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 2

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A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water full of krill, then pushes the water out through comb-like plates and swallows the krill, like straining pasta in a sieve.

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**Who acts:** blue whale · **What happens:** open, gulp, push out, swallow, strain · **To what, where:** mouth, pool load, water, like plates, krill, pasta

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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 (blue whale), 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:2
# text = A blue whale opens its mouth, gulps a swimming-pool load of water full of krill, then pushes the water out through comb-like plates and swallows the krill, like straining pasta in a sieve.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gulps	gulp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	straining	strain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	_
37	pasta	pasta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sieve	sieve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | a blue whale | whale's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 2 | **gulp** | present | a blue whale *not said here* | a pool load of water |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
| 3 | **push out** | present | a blue whale *not said here* | the water |  | like plates | then |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme through plate=Trajectory |
| 4 | **swallow** | present | a blue whale *not said here* | the krill |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient |
| 5 | **strain** | gerund | a blue whale *not said here* | pasta |  | a sieve |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pasta=Theme |

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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.

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**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. **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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