--- title: Stand under the life-size blue whale model hanging in a museum: abou… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Stand under the life-size blue whale model hanging in a museum: about 30 metres long, about as long as two and a half buses, around 150 tonnes, with one heart weighing about 180 kilograms, the biggest animal ever known. Who acts: you, size blue whale model, two half buses. A sentence of the lesson « --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Whales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/) / 1 # Whales, sentence 1 Stand under the life-size blue whale model hanging in a museum: about 30 metres long, about as long as two and a half buses, around 150 tonnes, with one heart weighing about 180 kilograms, the biggest animal ever known. **Who acts:** you, size blue whale model, two half buses · **What happens:** stand, hang, weigh, know · **To what, where:** museum, 180 kilograms, biggest animal This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales» 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 (you, size blue whale model, two half buses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:026-whales.lesson:1 # text = Stand under the life-size blue whale model hanging in a museum: about 30 metres long, about as long as two and a half buses, around 150 tonnes, with one heart weighing about 180 kilograms, the biggest animal ever known. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 026-whales.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Stand stand VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 4 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 7 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 museum museum NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:det 27 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 compound _ _ 28 buses bus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 around around ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 150 150 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 tonnes tonne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 with with SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nummod _ _ 36 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 weighing weigh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 39 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 44 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 45 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 46 advmod _ _ 46 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | under the size blue whale model | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under model=Location | | 2 | **hang** | gerund | the size blue whale model *not said here* | | | a museum | | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in museum=Location | | 3 | **weigh** | gerund | two half buses and 150 tonnes *not said here* | 180 kilograms | | | | the biggest animal *obl* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 4 | **know** | participle | | the biggest animal *not said here* | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:026-whales.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Horses, zebras and donkeys, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/17/) - next →: [Whales, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/)