--- title: The strangest are the beaked whales: deep divers so shy that some ki… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: The strangest are the beaked whales: deep divers so shy that some kinds are known only from a few bodies washed up on beaches. Who acts: strangest. 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 schoo --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 3 The strangest are the beaked whales: deep divers so shy that some kinds are known only from a few bodies washed up on beaches. **Who acts:** strangest · **What happens:** beak, be, know, wash up · **To what, where:** beaked whales, kinds, few bodies, beaches 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 (strangest), 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:3 # text = The strangest are the beaked whales: deep divers so shy that some kinds are known only from a few bodies washed up on beaches. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 strangest strange ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 beaked beak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 divers diver NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 14 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beak** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the strangest | the beaked whales | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | present · passive | | some kinds | | a few bodies | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **wash up** | participle | | a few bodies *not said here* | | beaches | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «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. 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:3`. **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 ×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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