Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 0
A sea lion claps its flippers and walks up the rocks on all four, while a harbour seal next door wriggles on its belly and floats upright asleep like a bottle in the water.
Who acts: sea lion, harbour seal · What happens: clap, walk up, wriggle, float · To what, where: flippers, rocks, four, belly
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology 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 (sea lion, harbour seal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lion | compound |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claps | nsubj |
| 4 | claps | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 flippers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 claps | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walks | cc |
| 8 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 claps | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 walks | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rocks | det |
| 11 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 walks | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 four | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 four | det |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 rocks | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wriggles | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 wriggles | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 seal | det |
| 18 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seal | compound |
| 19 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wriggles | nsubj |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 door | amod |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seal | compound |
| 22 | wriggles | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 walks | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 belly | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 belly | nmod:poss |
| 25 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wriggles | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 floats | cc |
| 27 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wriggles | conj |
| 28 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 27 floats | advmod |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wriggles | parataxis |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 bottle | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bottle | det |
| 32 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 floats | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 water | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bottle | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 claps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clap | present | a sea lion | lion's flippers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flipper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk up | present | a sea lion not said here | the rocks | all four | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rock=Theme on four=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | wriggle | present | a harbour seal | lion's belly | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | float | present | a harbour seal not said here | like a bottle in the water; upright property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters.lesson:0.
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 ×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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