--- title: A newborn blue whale is about 7 metres long and drinks very rich mil… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A newborn blue whale is about 7 metres long and drinks very rich milk, often quoted at about 380 litres a day; whale babies are born live under water, usually tail first. 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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:10 # text = A newborn blue whale is about 7 metres long and drinks very rich milk, often quoted at about 380 litres a day; whale babies are born live under water, usually tail first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 newborn newborn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 11 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 quoted quote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 380 380 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 litres litre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 29 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 under under ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 usually usually ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 tail tail VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 35 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | 7 metres | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | present | | rich milk | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | participle | | rich milk *not said here* | | 380 litres a day | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **bear** | present · passive | | whale babies | | | | live *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **tail** | present | | | | | | first, usually *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:049-babies.lesson:10`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/9/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)