--- title: Whales dive to eat and come up to poo, and their poo, rich in iron,… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Whales dive to eat and come up to poo, and their poo, rich in iron, feeds tiny floating plants near the surface, which feed krill; so more whales can mean more krill, not less. Who acts: Whales, poo, tiny floating plants, more whales. 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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 (Whales, poo, tiny floating plants, more 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:17 # text = Whales dive to eat and come up to poo, and their poo, rich in iron, feeds tiny floating plants near the surface, which feed krill; so more whales can mean more krill, not less. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 poo poo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 19 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl:relcl 29 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 32 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 33 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ _ 37 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 ccomp _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dive** | present | Whales | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Whales *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come up** | infinitive | Whales *not said here* | | | poo | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to poo=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **feed** | present | whales's poo | tiny floating plants | | the surface | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient | | 5 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **feed** | present | tiny floating plants | krill | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Recipient | | 7 | **mean** | can | more whales | more krill | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Topic | 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:17`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/15/) - next →: [Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sp…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/0/) - ↑ 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/)