--- title: Humpbacks blow a spiral net of bubbles around a shoal of fish and th… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, hu… · tree and pragmatics description: Humpbacks blow a spiral net of bubbles around a shoal of fish and then swim up through the middle with mouths open; often several work together. Who acts: Humpbacks, several. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology cours --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 9 Humpbacks blow a spiral net of bubbles around a shoal of fish and then swim up through the middle with mouths open; often several work together. **Who acts:** Humpbacks, several · **What happens:** blow, swim up, work together · **To what, where:** spiral net, shoal, middle 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 (Humpbacks, several), 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:9 # text = Humpbacks blow a spiral net of bubbles around a shoal of fish and then swim up through the middle with mouths open; often several work together. # 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): no change 1 Humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 spiral spiral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bubbles bubble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shoal shoal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 22 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nsubj _ _ 26 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 together together ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **blow** | present | Humpbacks | a spiral net of bubbles | | a shoal of fish | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent net=Patient | | 2 | **swim up** | present | Humpbacks *not said here* | | | the middle | then | with mouths; open *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory | | 3 | **work together** | present | several | | | | | often, together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:9`. **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): no change. **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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