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title: A whale breathes through a blowhole on top of its head, and the tall… — Whales · tree and pragmatics
description: A whale breathes through a blowhole on top of its head, and the tall spout is warm wet breath turning to mist, the way your breath steams on a frosty morning. Who acts: whale, tall spout, warm wet breath, breath. A sentence of the lesson «Whales» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Whales, sentence 2

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A whale breathes through a blowhole on top of its head, and the tall spout is warm wet breath turning to mist, the way your breath steams on a frosty morning.

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**Who acts:** whale, tall spout, warm wet breath, breath · **What happens:** breathe, be, turn, steam · **To what, where:** blowhole, warm wet breath, mist, way

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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, tall spout, warm wet breath, breath), 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:2
# text = A whale breathes through a blowhole on top of its head, and the tall spout is warm wet breath turning to mist, the way your breath steams on a frosty morning.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blowhole	blowhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spout	spout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
21	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	steams	steam	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **breathe** | present | a whale |  |  | a blowhole on top of whale's head |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the tall spout | warm wet breath |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | warm wet breath *not said here* |  |  | mist |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to mist=Trajectory |
| 4 | **steam** | present | your breath | the way *not said here* |  |  | morning |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent way=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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**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.

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