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title: The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to seve… — The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plank… · tree and pragmatics
description: The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to several tonnes a day. Who acts: blue whale. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 11

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The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to several tonnes a day.

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**Who acts:** blue whale · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** tiny krill

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:11
# text = The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to several tonnes a day.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **eat** | present | the blue whale | tiny krill |  |  |  | up several tonnes  a day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient |

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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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**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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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