--- title: Blue whales and humpbacks have no teeth: rows of baleen plates hang… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: Blue whales and humpbacks have no teeth: rows of baleen plates hang from the top jaw and sieve tiny krill and small fish out of huge mouthfuls of water, a bit like the sailor's grating. Who acts: Blue whales, rows. 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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 (Blue whales, rows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:8 # text = Blue whales and humpbacks have no teeth: rows of baleen plates hang from the top jaw and sieve tiny krill and small fish out of huge mouthfuls of water, a bit like the sailor's grating. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 sieve sieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 mouthfuls mouthful NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sailor sailor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Blue whales and humpbacks | no teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **hang** | present | rows of baleen plates | | | the top jaw | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sieve** | infinitive | rows of baleen plates *not said here* | tiny krill and small fish | | huge mouthfuls of water and a bit like the sailor's grating | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient | 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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:8`. **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): R8-pos-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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