--- title: Think of Moby Dick, the white whale in the old story: he was a sperm… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of Moby Dick, the white whale in the old story: he was a sperm whale, and real sperm whale skin often shows round scars from the suckers of squid they fought in the dark. Who acts: you, Moby, real whale skin, whales. 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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 (you, Moby, real whale skin, whales), 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:4 # text = Think of Moby Dick, the white whale in the old story: he was a sperm whale, and real sperm whale skin often shows round scars from the suckers of squid they fought in the dark. # 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 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Moby Moby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 4 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 22 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 scars scar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 suckers sucker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of Moby | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | Moby | a sperm whale | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | real whale skin | round scars | | the suckers of squid | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scar=Recipient | | 4 | **fight** | past | whales *= whale* | squid *not said here* | | the dark | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Co-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:4`. **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. **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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