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title: Right whales have rough white patches on their heads covered in tiny… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right whales have rough white patches on their heads covered in tiny whale lice; the pattern differs on each whale, so scientists recognise each one, and only about 370 North Atlantic right whales were left, reported. Who acts: Right whales, pattern, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by k
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# Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 13

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Right whales have rough white patches on their heads covered in tiny whale lice; the pattern differs on each whale, so scientists recognise each one, and only about 370 North Atlantic right whales were left, reported.

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**Who acts:** Right whales, pattern, scientists · **What happens:** have, cover, differ, recognise, leave, report · **To what, where:** rough white patches, heads, one, 370 Atlantic right whales

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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 (Right whales, pattern, scientists), 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:13
# text = Right whales have rough white patches on their heads covered in tiny whale lice; the pattern differs on each whale, so scientists recognise each one, and only about 370 North Atlantic right whales were left, reported.
# 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	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
4	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	recognise	recognise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	370	370	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
33	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
35	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Right whales | rough white patches |  | whales's heads |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | rough white patches *not said here* |  |  |  | in tiny whale lice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in louse=Theme |
| 3 | **differ** | present | the pattern |  |  |  |  | on each whale | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on whale=Topic |
| 4 | **recognise** | present | scientists | each one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 5 | **leave** | past · passive |  | 370 Atlantic right whales |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **report** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |

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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.

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**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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