--- title: The minke is the smallest of the big baleen whales, about 7 to 10 me… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: The minke is the smallest of the big baleen whales, about 7 to 10 metres long, and is the whale most often seen near boats around Britain in summer. Who acts: minke, whale. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology course --- [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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 14 The minke is the smallest of the big baleen whales, about 7 to 10 metres long, and is the whale most often seen near boats around Britain in summer. **Who acts:** minke, whale · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big baleen whales, boats 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 (minke, whale), 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:14 # text = The minke is the smallest of the big baleen whales, about 7 to 10 metres long, and is the whale most often seen near boats around Britain in summer. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 minke minke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 smallest small ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nmod _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 often often ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ _ 26 near near ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 around around ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the minke | | | | | of the big baleen whales; 7 metres *obl:unmarked*; small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | the whale | the big baleen whales *not said here* | | boats around Britain | summer | often, see *property* | tree rules | 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:14`. **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. **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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