--- title: Cartoon whales shoot a fountain of sea water out of their heads and… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon whales shoot a fountain of sea water out of their heads and swallow ships whole; the spout is breath, not a fountain, and the biggest whale of all eats tiny krill only a few centimetres long. Who acts: Cartoon whales, spout, biggest whale. A sentence of the lesson «Whales» of the biology cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/3/) [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/) / 3 # Whales, sentence 3 Cartoon whales shoot a fountain of sea water out of their heads and swallow ships whole; the spout is breath, not a fountain, and the biggest whale of all eats tiny krill only a few centimetres long. **Who acts:** Cartoon whales, spout, biggest whale · **What happens:** shoot, swallow, be, eat · **To what, where:** fountain, ships, breath, tiny krill 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 (Cartoon whales, spout, biggest whale), 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:3 # text = Cartoon whales shoot a fountain of sea water out of their heads and swallow ships whole; the spout is breath, not a fountain, and the biggest whale of all eats tiny krill only a few centimetres long. # 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 ×1 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spout spout NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 nmod _ _ 33 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 34 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 40 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | present | Cartoon whales | a fountain of sea water out tonnes's heads | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme | | 2 | **swallow** | present | Cartoon whales *not said here* | ships | | | | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | present | the spout | breath and a fountain | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | present | the biggest whale of all | tiny krill a few centimetres | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=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:3`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Whales, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/2/) - next →: [Whales, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/)