--- title: Baleen is a curtain of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Baleen is a curtain of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw, made of keratin like fingernails; it sieves krill and small fish out of the water. Who acts: Baleen, curtain. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biolo --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 7 Baleen is a curtain of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw, made of keratin like fingernails; it sieves krill and small fish out of the water. **Who acts:** Baleen, curtain · **What happens:** be, make, sieve · **To what, where:** curtain, krill, water 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, curtain), 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:7 # text = Baleen is a curtain of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw, made of keratin like fingernails; it sieves krill and small fish out of the water. # 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 1 Baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 curtain curtain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sieves sieve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17: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** | present | Baleen | a curtain | | | | of hundreds of plates on each side of the upper jaw | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | past | a curtain | | | | | of keratin like fingernails | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **sieve** | present | curtain | krill and small fish | | the water | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient | 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:7`. **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. **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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