--- title: Humpback whales were hunted almost to extinction; after a ban on com… — Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales,… · tree and pragmatics description: Humpback whales were hunted almost to extinction; after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986, many groups grew strongly, and there are now tens of thousands. Who acts: many groups, tens. A sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/5/) [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/) / [Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpbac…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo/) / 5 # Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 5 Humpback whales were hunted almost to extinction; after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986, many groups grew strongly, and there are now tens of thousands. **Who acts:** many groups, tens · **What happens:** hunt, grow, be · **To what, where:** Humpback whales This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» 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 (many groups, tens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:5 # text = Humpback whales were hunted almost to extinction; after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986, many groups grew strongly, and there are now tens of thousands. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 hunted hunt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 almost almost ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 extinction extinction NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ban ban NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 commercial commercial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 whaling whaling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 1986 1986 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 strongly strongly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX _ 25 expl _ _ 25 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 now now ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | past · passive | | Humpback whales | | | | to extinction | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | many groups | | | | after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986 | strongly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **does** | present | tens of thousands | | | there | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:5`. **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): 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. 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