--- title: Real biology: the biggest whales (blue, humpback) have no teeth but… — Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1: How the Wh… · tree and pragmatics description: Real biology: the biggest whales (blue, humpback) have no teeth but baleen, rows of bristly plates in the mouth that sieve tiny shrimp-like krill and small fish out of the water, a bit like a real "grating". Who acts: biggest whales, mouth. 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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 (biggest whales, mouth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:20 # text = Real biology: the biggest whales (blue, humpback) have no teeth but baleen, rows of bristly plates in the mouth that sieve tiny shrimp-like krill and small fish out of the water, a bit like a real "grating". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 074-justso-whale-throat.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 biology biology NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 baleen baleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 bristly bristly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 sieve sieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 28 shrimp shrimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the biggest whales | Real biology | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **sieve** | present | the mouth | tiny krill and small fish | | the water | | a bit like a real grating *obl:unmarked* | 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:books:074-justso-whale-throat.lesson:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/19/) - next →: [Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 1:…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/74-justso-whale-throat/)