--- title: Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made o… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails. Who acts: curtain. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/1/) [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 by kind, the baleen whales: blu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/) / 1 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 1 Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails. **Who acts:** curtain · **What happens:** hang, make · **To what, where:** upper jaw, curtain This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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 (curtain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.lesson:1 # text = Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.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 ×2 1 Instead instead ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod 2 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 hangs hang VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . 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 | **hang** | present | a curtain of baleen plates | | | the upper jaw | | instead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | participle | | a curtain of baleen plates *not said here* | | | | of keratin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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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