--- title: They have one blowhole, and most find their food by sending out clic… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: They have one blowhole, and most find their food by sending out clicks and listening for the echoes. Who acts: whales. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/1/) [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 toothed whales: sp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/) / 1 # Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 1 They have one blowhole, and most find their food by sending out clicks and listening for the echoes. **Who acts:** whales · **What happens:** have, find, send out, listen · **To what, where:** one blowhole, food, clicks This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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 (whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:1 # text = They have one blowhole, and most find their food by sending out clicks and listening for the echoes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 blowhole blowhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 8 advmod _ _ 8 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 sending send VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 listening listen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 . . 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 | **have** | present | whales *= whale* | one blowhole | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient | | 2 | **find** | present | whales *= whale* *not said here* | whales's food | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic | | 3 | **send out** | gerund | whales *= whale* *not said here* | clicks | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent click=Theme | | 4 | **listen** | gerund | whales *= whale* *not said here* | | | | | for the echoes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for echo=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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-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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