--- title: Humpback whales work together to blow a spiral net of bubbles that t… — Whales · tree and pragmatics description: Humpback whales work together to blow a spiral net of bubbles that traps a shoal of fish, then rise through it with mouths open. Who acts: Humpback whales, spiral net. A sentence of the lesson «Whales» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/9/) [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/) / 9 # Whales, sentence 9 Humpback whales work together to blow a spiral net of bubbles that traps a shoal of fish, then rise through it with mouths open. **Who acts:** Humpback whales, spiral net · **What happens:** work together, blow, trap, rise · **To what, where:** spiral net, shoal 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 (Humpback whales, spiral net), 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:9 # text = Humpback whales work together to blow a spiral net of bubbles that traps a shoal of fish, then rise through it with mouths open. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 together together ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 spiral spiral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 traps trap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 shoal shoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 21 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 with with SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 advcl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **work together** | present | Humpback whales | | | | | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **blow** | to-infinitive | Humpback whales *not said here* | a spiral net of bubbles | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient | | 3 | **trap** | present | a spiral net of bubbles | a shoal of fish | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoal=Patient | | 4 | **rise** | infinitive | Humpback whales *not said here* | | | | then | through whale | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through it=Location | 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:9`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/8/) - next →: [Whales, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/)