--- title: The blue whale may be the biggest animal that has ever lived, up to… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: The blue whale may be the biggest animal that has ever lived, up to about 30 metres long; its heart weighs about 180 kilograms and on a dive can beat as slowly as two beats a minute, a study reported. Who acts: blue whale, biggest animal, heart, study. 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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 (blue whale, biggest animal, heart, study), 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:6 # text = The blue whale may be the biggest animal that has ever lived, up to about 30 metres long; its heart weighs about 180 kilograms and on a dive can beat as slowly as two beats a minute, a study reported. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 10 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 12 lived live VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 up up ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 180 180 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 dive dive NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj 37 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 reported report VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8: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 a** | may | the blue whale | the biggest animal | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present · perfect | the biggest animal | | | | ever | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **weigh** | present | animal's heart | 180 kilograms and a dive | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | | 4 | **beat** | can | animal's heart *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **beat** | present | animal's heart *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **report** | past | a study | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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