--- title: The beluga lives in the Arctic, where its white skin hides it among… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: The beluga lives in the Arctic, where its white skin hides it among the ice; sailors called belugas sea canaries for their whistles and chirps. Who acts: beluga, white skin, sailors. 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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 (beluga, white skin, sailors), 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:13 # text = The beluga lives in the Arctic, where its white skin hides it among the ice; sailors called belugas sea canaries for their whistles and chirps. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 beluga beluga NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Arctic Arctic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 12 advmod _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 among among ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 sailors sailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 belugas beluga NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 canaries canary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:nmod 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 chirps chirp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | the beluga | | | the Arctic | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location | | 2 | **hide** | present | beluga's white skin | beluga | | the ice | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient among ice=Location | | 3 | **call** | past | sailors | belugas | | | | for sailors's whistles and chirps | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent beluga=Theme for whistle=Beneficiary | | 4 | **whistle** | | sailors *= sailor* | | | | | | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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