--- title: Grey whales swim about 16,000 to 20,000 kilometres there and back ea… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey whales swim about 16,000 to 20,000 kilometres there and back each year, feeding in the Arctic in summer and having babies in warm lagoons in Mexico in winter. Who acts: Grey whales. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the b --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 11 Grey whales swim about 16,000 to 20,000 kilometres there and back each year, feeding in the Arctic in summer and having babies in warm lagoons in Mexico in winter. **Who acts:** Grey whales · **What happens:** swim, feed, have · **To what, where:** Arctic, babies, warm lagoons 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 (Grey whales), 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:11 # text = Grey whales swim about 16,000 to 20,000 kilometres there and back each year, feeding in the Arctic in summer and having babies in warm lagoons in Mexico in winter. # 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): no change 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 16,000 16,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 20,000 20,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 8 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 back back ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 feeding feed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 23 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 lagoons lagoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **swim** | present | Grey whales | | | there | year | about 16,000 kilometres | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about kilometre=Trajectory | | 2 | **feed** | gerund | Grey whales *not said here* | | | the Arctic | summer | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in arctic=Location | | 3 | **have** | gerund | Grey whales *not said here* | babies | | warm lagoons in Mexico | winter | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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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