--- title: Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales ca… — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics description: Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers. Who acts: Sperm whales, many sperm whales. A sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/15/) [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/) / [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/) / 15 # Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 15 Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers. **Who acts:** Sperm whales, many sperm whales · **What happens:** dive, hunt, carry, leave · **To what, where:** giant squid, round scars This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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, many sperm whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:15 # text = Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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 Sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 3 dive dive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 deep deep ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 scars scar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 suckers sucker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | | | | | deep *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Sperm whales *not said here* | giant squid | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | many sperm whales | round scars | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | round scars *not said here* | | | | by the squid's suckers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by sucker=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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/14/) - next →: [Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/)