Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 10

A seal's whiskers feel tiny movements in the water, and in experiments a blindfolded seal followed the trail of a fish model seconds after it passed.

Who acts: whiskers, blindfolded seal, seal · What happens: feel, blindfold, follow, pass · To what, where: tiny movements, water, trail, experiments

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 (whiskers, blindfolded seal, 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	2 seal	det
2	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whiskers	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 seal	case
4	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 movements	amod
7	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 movements	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 followed	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 experiments	case
14	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 followed	obl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 seal	det
16	blindfolded	blindfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seal	amod
17	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	nsubj
18	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trail	det
20	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 followed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 seconds	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 seconds	det
23	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 model	compound
24	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seconds	compound
25	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 trail	nmod
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	28 passed	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 passed	nsubj
28	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 followed	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feel	present	a seal's whiskers	tiny movements	the water	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent movement=Theme in water=Location
2	blindfold	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	follow	past	a blindfolded seal	the trail of a model seconds	experiments	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme in experiment=Trajectory
4	pass	past	seal			vn occur-48.3-1 «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: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): no change. 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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