--- title: A baleen whale gulps a huge mouthful of sea, then pushes the water o… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: A baleen whale gulps a huge mouthful of sea, then pushes the water out through the baleen, and the krill and small fish stay inside like pasta in a sieve. Who acts: baleen whale, krill. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the bi --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 2 A baleen whale gulps a huge mouthful of sea, then pushes the water out through the baleen, and the krill and small fish stay inside like pasta in a sieve. **Who acts:** baleen whale, krill · **What happens:** gulp, push out, stay · **To what, where:** huge mouthful, water, baleen 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 whale, krill), 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:2 # text = A baleen whale gulps a huge mouthful of sea, then pushes the water out through the baleen, and the krill and small fish stay inside like pasta in a sieve. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gulps gulp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mouthful mouthful NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 12 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 16 through through ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 inside inside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 pasta pasta NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gulp** | present | a baleen whale | a huge mouthful of sea | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient | | 2 | **push out** | present | a baleen whale *not said here* | the water | | the baleen | then | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme through baleen=Trajectory | | 3 | **stay** | present | the krill and small fish | | | | | like pasta in a sieve; inside *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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