--- title: The sperm whale, with its huge square head, dives into the black dee… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: The sperm whale, with its huge square head, dives into the black deep to hunt squid; the orca is the biggest dolphin; the white beluga chirps among the Arctic ice. Who acts: sperm whale, orca, white beluga. 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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 (sperm whale, orca, white beluga), 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:2 # text = The sperm whale, with its huge square head, dives into the black deep to hunt squid; the orca is the biggest dolphin; the white beluga chirps among the Arctic ice. # 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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 dives dive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 18 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 orca orca NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 amod _ _ 25 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 beluga beluga NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 chirps chirp VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 31 among among ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dive** | present | the sperm whale | | | the black deep | | | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into deep=Location | | 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the sperm whale *not said here* | squid | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | the orca | the biggest dolphin | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **chirp** | present | the white beluga | | | | | among the Arctic ice | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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. 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