--- title: A baleen whale's throat is narrow for such a giant, and it could not… — The real animals of the Just So Stories: the wha… · tree and pragmatics description: A baleen whale's throat is narrow for such a giant, and it could not swallow a person; the toothed sperm whale is different and swallows big squid whole. Who acts: throat, giant, toothed sperm whale. 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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 (throat, giant, toothed sperm whale), 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:9 # text = A baleen whale's throat is narrow for such a giant, and it could not swallow a person; the toothed sperm whale is different and swallows big squid whole. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 11 det:predet _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 toothed toothed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 squid squid NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 whole whole ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a baleen whale's throat | | | | | for such giant; narrow *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **swallow** | could | giant | a person | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | the toothed sperm whale | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **swallow** | present | the toothed sperm whale *not said here* | big squid | | | | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=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. 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