Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 17

The walrus is a relative of seals and sea lions; it uses its two long tusks to haul itself onto the ice and to show strength, and finds clams with its whiskers; walruses are huge, need cold seas and eat lots of clams, so zoos hardly ever keep them.

Who acts: walrus, walruses, zoos · What happens: be, use, haul, show, find, need · To what, where: relative, two long tusks, walrus, ice, strength, clams

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 (walrus, walruses, zoos), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walrus	det
2	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relative	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 relative	det
5	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 seals	case
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 relative	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lions	cc
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lions	compound
10	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seals	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 uses	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 uses	nsubj
13	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 relative	parataxis
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tusks	nmod:poss
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 tusks	nummod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tusks	amod
17	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 uses	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 haul	mark
19	haul	haul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 uses	advcl
20	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 haul	obj
21	onto	onto	ADP	_	23 ice	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ice	det
23	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 haul	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 show	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 show	mark
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 haul	conj
27	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 show	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 finds	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 finds	cc
30	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 uses	conj
31	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 finds	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 whiskers	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 whiskers	nmod:poss
34	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 finds	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 huge	punct
36	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 huge	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 huge	cop
38	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 finds	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 need	punct
40	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 huge	conj
41	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 seas	amod
42	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 need	obj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 eat	cc
44	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 need	conj
45	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 eat	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 clams	case
47	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 lots	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 keep	punct
49	so	so	ADV	_	53 keep	advmod
50	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 keep	nsubj
51	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	53 keep	advmod
52	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	53 keep	advmod
53	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 finds	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 keep	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the walrus	a relative			of seals and sea lions	tree rules
2	use	present	walrus	walrus's two long tusks				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
3	haul	to-infinitive	walrus not said here	walrus	the ice			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
4	show	to-infinitive	walrus not said here	strength				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient
5	find	present	walrus not said here	clams			with walrus's whiskers	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clam=Topic
6	is	present	walruses				huge property	tree rules
7	need	present	walruses not said here	cold seas				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sea=Theme
8	eat	present	walruses not said here	lots of clams				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient
9	keep	infinitive	zoos	lots = lot		ever	hardly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:17.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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