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title: Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes m… — Whales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen. Who acts: Whale poo, nutrients, plankton. A sentence of the lesson «Whales» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Whales, sentence 17

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Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen.

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**Who acts:** Whale poo, nutrients, plankton · **What happens:** spread, feed, make · **To what, where:** nutrients, plankton, much

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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 (Whale poo, nutrients, plankton), 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:17
# text = Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	plankton	plankton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	plankton	plankton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJ:PronType=Ind
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spread** | present | Whale poo | nutrients |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nutrient=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** | present | nutrients | plankton |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | present | plankton | much of Earth's oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product |

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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:026-whales.lesson:17`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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