--- title: Orcas, or killer whales, are the biggest kind of dolphin and live in… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Orcas, or killer whales, are the biggest kind of dolphin and live in family groups led by older females, who can live to around 80 or 90 and remember where to find food in hard times. Who acts: Orcas. 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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 (Orcas), 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:15 # text = Orcas, or killer whales, are the biggest kind of dolphin and live in family groups led by older females, who can live to around 80 or 90 and remember where to find food in hard times. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Orcas orca NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 killer killer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:acl:relcl 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 around around ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 90 90 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 conj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 ccomp _ _ 36 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | Orcas or killer whales | the biggest kind | | | | of dolphin | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | Orcas or killer whales *not said here* | | | family groups | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 3 | **lead** | participle | | family groups *not said here* | | | | by older females | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination | | 4 | **live** | can | | | | | | to 80 | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | | food | | | time | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | 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. 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