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description: The sperm whale and the orca have teeth, while the blue whale and the humpback have baleen plates for straining small food from the water; baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one. Who acts: sperm whale, blue whale, baleen whales, toothed whales. A sentence of the lesson «The big
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# The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399, sentence 9

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The sperm whale and the orca have teeth, while the blue whale and the humpback have baleen plates for straining small food from the water; baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one.

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**Who acts:** sperm whale, blue whale, baleen whales, toothed whales · **What happens:** have, strain · **To what, where:** teeth, baleen plates, small food, water, two blowholes, one

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 whale, blue whale, baleen whales, toothed whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.lesson:9
# text = The sperm whale and the orca have teeth, while the blue whale and the humpback have baleen plates for straining small food from the water; baleen whales have two blowholes and toothed whales have one.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sperm	sperm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orca	orca	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	humpback	humpback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
18	baleen	baleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	straining	strain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	baleen	baleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	blowholes	blowhole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	toothed	toothed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **have** | present | the sperm whale and the orca | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | the blue whale and the humpback | baleen plates |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
| 3 | **strain** | gerund | the blue whale and the humpback *not said here* | small food |  | the water |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from water=Source |
| 4 | **have** | present | baleen whales | two blowholes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present | toothed whales | one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |

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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): 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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