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title: Real life: the biggest animal from the sea, the blue whale, can eat… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real life: the biggest animal from the sea, the blue whale, can eat about 4 tonnes of tiny krill in a day, so a huge sea-eater is not all made up. Who acts: biggest animal. A sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's b
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# Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 32

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Real life: the biggest animal from the sea, the blue whale, can eat about 4 tonnes of tiny krill in a day, so a huge sea-eater is not all made up.

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**Who acts:** biggest animal · **What happens:** eat, not make up · **To what, where:** 4 tonnes, huge sea eater

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books 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 (biggest animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:32
# text = Real life: the biggest animal from the sea, the blue whale, can eat about 4 tonnes of tiny krill in a day, so a huge sea-eater is not all made up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
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	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **eat** | can | the biggest animal from the sea and the blue whale | 4 tonnes of tiny krill |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make up** | present · passive |  | a huge sea eater |  |  |  | all *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot |

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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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**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:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:32`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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