--- title: Sperm whales dive over 2 kilometres deep, often for an hour or more,… — Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sperm whales dive over 2 kilometres deep, often for an hour or more, hunting squid; they store oxygen in their blood and muscles. Who acts: Sperm whales, whales. 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 --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 6 Sperm whales dive over 2 kilometres deep, often for an hour or more, hunting squid; they store oxygen in their blood and muscles. **Who acts:** Sperm whales, whales · **What happens:** dive, hunt, store · **To what, where:** 2 kilometres, squid, oxygen, blood 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 (Sperm whales, 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:6 # text = Sperm whales dive over 2 kilometres deep, often for an hour or more, hunting squid; they store oxygen in their blood and muscles. # 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 Sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 often often ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 17 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 store store VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **dive** | present | Sperm whales | 2 kilometres | | | hour | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Sperm whales *not said here* | squid | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme | | 3 | **store** | present | whales *= whale* | oxygen | | whales's blood and muscles | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in blood=Location | 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:6`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sp…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/5/) - next →: [Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sp…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales/)