--- title: Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales have no teeth, but bale… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales have no teeth, but baleen plates that sieve krill and small fish from huge mouthfuls of water; a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person. Who acts: Baleen whales, baleen plates, throat. A sentence of the lesson «Whales» of the biology co --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/8/) [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/) / 8 # Whales, sentence 8 Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales have no teeth, but baleen plates that sieve krill and small fish from huge mouthfuls of water; a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person. **Who acts:** Baleen whales, baleen plates, throat · **What happens:** have, sieve, be, swallow · **To what, where:** teeth, krill, person 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 (Baleen whales, baleen plates, throat), 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:8 # text = Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales have no teeth, but baleen plates that sieve krill and small fish from huge mouthfuls of water; a blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sieve sieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 mouthfuls mouthful NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 34 too too ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:xcomp 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Baleen whales like humpbacks and blue whales | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **sieve** | present | baleen plates | krill and small fish | | | | from huge mouthfuls of water | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent krill=Patient from mouthful=Co-Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | a blue whale's throat | | | | | far, narrow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | a blue whale's throat *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Whales, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/7/) - next →: [Whales, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/)