--- title: The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale'… — Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers… · tree and pragmatics description: The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale's flipper has the same bones as your arm and hand. Who acts: closest living land relatives, flipper. 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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 (closest living land relatives, flipper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:16 # text = The closest living land relatives of whales are hippos, and a whale's flipper has the same bones as your arm and hand. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.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 5 det _ _ 2 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 3 living live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 flipper flipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the closest living land relatives of whales | hippos | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | a whale's flipper | the same bones | | | | as your arm and hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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:235-animal-minds-dolphins-names-orca-grandmothers-and-whale-songs.lesson:16`. **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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