--- title: There are no confirmed cases of wild orcas killing a person. — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: There are no confirmed cases of wild orcas killing a person. Who acts: confirmed cases, wild orcas. 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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 (confirmed cases, wild orcas), 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:11 # text = There are no confirmed cases of wild orcas killing a person. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:expl 2 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 confirmed confirm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 orcas orca NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 killing kill VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | no confirmed cases of wild orcas | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **confirm** | participle | | | | | | | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **kill** | gerund | wild orcas *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=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:11`. **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 ×3, 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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