--- title: The blue whale is the biggest animal known ever to have lived, up to… — Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and pr… · tree and pragmatics description: The blue whale is the biggest animal known ever to have lived, up to about 30 metres long, because water holds up its weight. Who acts: blue whale, water. A sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/13/) [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/) / [Megalodon and the giants of the sea, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/) / 13 # Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present, sentence 13 The blue whale is the biggest animal known ever to have lived, up to about 30 metres long, because water holds up its weight. **Who acts:** blue whale, water · **What happens:** be, know, live, hold up · **To what, where:** biggest animal, weight This is a sentence of the lesson «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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 (blue whale, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.lesson:13 # text = The blue whale is the biggest animal known ever to have lived, up to about 30 metres long, because water holds up its weight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the blue whale | the biggest animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | the biggest animal *not said here* | | | ever | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **live** | to-infinitive · perfect | | | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hold up** | present | water | water's weight | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot weight=Theme | 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. 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