--- title: Whaling, the hunting of whales for oil and meat, nearly wiped out so… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Whaling, the hunting of whales for oil and meat, nearly wiped out some species; most whaling was banned in 1986, and humpbacks have recovered a lot. Who acts: Whaling, humpbacks. 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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 (Whaling, humpbacks), 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:16 # text = Whaling, the hunting of whales for oil and meat, nearly wiped out some species; most whaling was banned in 1986, and humpbacks have recovered a lot. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Whaling whaling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 oil oil NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 wiped wipe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 species species NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 19 whaling whaling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj 31 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wipe out** | past | Whaling | some species | | | | nearly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent species=Source | | 2 | **ban** | past · passive | | most whaling | | 1986 | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **recover** | present · perfect | humpbacks | a lot | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hunt** | | | whales for oil and meat | | | | | nom hunting «act transitive»: of=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:026-whales.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [Whales, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/15/) - next →: [Whales, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/)