--- title: Sperm whales hunt squid more than a kilometre down in total darkness… — Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sperm whales hunt squid more than a kilometre down in total darkness with clicks that are among the loudest sounds any animal makes. Who acts: Sperm whales, clicks, animal. 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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 (Sperm whales, clicks, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:6 # text = Sperm whales hunt squid more than a kilometre down in total darkness with clicks that are among the loudest sounds any animal makes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 6 than than ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 kilometre kilometre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 9 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 total total ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 among among ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 19 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 20 amod _ _ 20 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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** | present | Sperm whales | squid | | total darkness | | with clicks; down *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent squid=Theme in darkness=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | clicks | | | | | among the loudest sounds | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | any animal | the loudest sounds *not said here* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product | 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:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans.lesson:6`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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