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title: There are about 24 kinds of beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale hold… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are about 24 kinds of beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale holds the record dive for a mammal, about 3 kilometres deep and over 3 hours long. Who acts: 24 kinds, beaked whale. A sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» of the biolo
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# Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 15

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There are about 24 kinds of beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale holds the record dive for a mammal, about 3 kilometres deep and over 3 hours long.

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**Who acts:** 24 kinds, beaked whale · **What happens:** be about, hold · **To what, where:** record dive

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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 (24 kinds, beaked whale), 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:15
# text = There are about 24 kinds of beaked whale; Cuvier's beaked whale holds the record dive for a mammal, about 3 kilometres deep and over 3 hours long.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	beaked	beaked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
10	Cuvier	Cuvier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	beaked	beaked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	dive	dive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be about** | present | 24 kinds of beaked whale |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present | Cuvier's beaked whale | the record dive |  |  |  | for a mammal | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dive=Theme |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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