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title: Each kind has its own trick: humpbacks blow nets of bubbles, grey wh… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each kind has its own trick: humpbacks blow nets of bubbles, grey whales suck mud from the seabed, fin whales race like greyhounds, and every whale's spout has its own shape. Who acts: kind, humpbacks, grey whales, fin whales. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, h
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# Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 5

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Each kind has its own trick: humpbacks blow nets of bubbles, grey whales suck mud from the seabed, fin whales race like greyhounds, and every whale's spout has its own shape.

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**Who acts:** kind, humpbacks, grey whales, fin whales, spout · **What happens:** have, blow, suck, race, trick · **To what, where:** own trick, nets, mud, seabed, own shape

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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 (kind, humpbacks, grey whales, fin 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:5
# text = Each kind has its own trick: humpbacks blow nets of bubbles, grey whales suck mud from the seabed, fin whales race like greyhounds, and every whale's spout has its own shape.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	humpbacks	humpback	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	suck	suck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	seabed	seabed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	fin	fin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	race	race	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	spout	spout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each kind | kind's own trick |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | present | humpbacks | nets of bubbles |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient |
| 3 | **suck** | present | grey whales | mud |  | the seabed |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent mud=Theme from seabed=Source |
| 4 | **race** | present | fin whales |  |  |  |  | like greyhounds | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present | every whale's spout | kind's own shape |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient |
| 6 | **trick** |  | kind |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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