--- title: The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the d… — Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived · tree and pragmatics description: The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no longer than your finger that snaps its claw with a bang like a cap gun. Who acts: loudest animal, lion, one, finger. 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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 (loudest animal, lion, one, finger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:0 # text = The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no longer than your finger that snaps its claw with a bang like a cap gun. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 clicking click VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 noisiest noisy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 nmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 26 no no ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ _ 28 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 claw claw NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bang bang NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | the loudest animal | a lion but a sperm whale and a shrimp | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **click** | gerund | a lion but a sperm whale and a shrimp *not said here* | | | the deep sea | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | one of the noisiest | a shrimp | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **snap** | present | your finger | animal's claw | | | | with a bang like a cap gun | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent claw=Patient with bang=Instrument | 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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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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