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title: Baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one; blowho… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one; blowholes are nostrils that moved to the top of the head over millions of years. Who acts: Baleen whales, toothed whales, blowholes, nostrils. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right a
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# Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 15

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Baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one; blowholes are nostrils that moved to the top of the head over millions of years.

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**Who acts:** Baleen whales, toothed whales, blowholes, nostrils · **What happens:** have, be, move · **To what, where:** two blowholes, one, nostrils, millions

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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 (Baleen whales, toothed whales, blowholes, nostrils), 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:15
# text = Baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one; blowholes are nostrils that moved to the top of the head over millions of years.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Baleen	baleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	blowholes	blowhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	toothed	toothed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	blowholes	blowhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | Baleen whales | two blowholes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | toothed whales | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | blowholes | nostrils |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **move** | past | nostrils |  |  | millions of years |  | to the top of the head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to top=Source over million=Trajectory |

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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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**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:15`.

**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): 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/).

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