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title: Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale brea… — How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow. Who acts: Scientists, drones. A sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 13

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Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow.

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**Who acts:** Scientists, drones · **What happens:** use, count, collect, blow · **To what, where:** drones, whales, whale breath, spray

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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 (Scientists, drones), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:13
# text = Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.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): no change
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	drones	drone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Scientists | drones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drone=Patient |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | whales |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive | Scientists *not said here* | whale breath |  | the spray of drones's blow |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme from spray=Source |
| 4 | **blow** |  | drones *= drone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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