--- title: Grey whales feed by sucking mud from the seabed and sifting out smal… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey whales feed by sucking mud from the seabed and sifting out small creatures; in Mexican lagoons some now come up to boats and let people touch them, though whalers once called them devil fish. Who acts: Grey whales, some, people, whalers. 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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, some, people, whalers), 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:12 # text = Grey whales feed by sucking mud from the seabed and sifting out small creatures; in Mexican lagoons some now come up to boats and let people touch them, though whalers once called them devil fish. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 by by SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 sucking suck VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 seabed seabed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sifting sift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 Mexican Mexican ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 lagoons lagoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nsubj 20 now now ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 though though SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 whalers whaler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 34 advmod _ _ 34 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 devil devil NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** | present | Grey whales | | | | | | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **suck** | gerund | Grey whales *not said here* | mud | | the seabed | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mud=Theme from seabed=Source | | 3 | **sift out** | gerund | Grey whales *not said here* | small creatures | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | | 4 | **come up** | present | some | | | Mexican lagoons | now | to boats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to boat=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | some *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **touch** | infinitive | people *not said here* | whales *= whale* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 7 | **call** | past | whalers | whales *= whale* | | | | once *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | 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:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu…, 11](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/) - next →: [Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/)