Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 18

Some zoos and aquariums rescue seal pups that are ill or have lost their mothers, feed them until they are strong and release them into the sea.

Who acts: zoos, seal pups · What happens: rescue, be, lose, feed, release · To what, where: seal pups, mothers, zoos, sea

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 (zoos, seal pups), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 zoos	det
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rescue	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 aquariums	cc
4	aquariums	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 zoos	conj
5	rescue	rescue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pups	compound
7	pups	pup	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rescue	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 ill	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ill	cop
10	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pups	acl:relcl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 lost	cc
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ill	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mothers	nmod:poss
15	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feed	punct
17	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rescue	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	obj
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 strong	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strong	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 strong	cop
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feed	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 release	cc
24	release	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 strong	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 release	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 sea	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 release	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rescue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rescue	present	some zoos and aquariums	seal pups			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pup=Theme
2	is	present	seal pups			ill property	tree rules
3	lose	present · perfect	seal pups not said here	zoos's mothers			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
4	feed	present	some zoos and aquariums not said here	zoos = zoo			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	is	present	zoos = zoo			strong property	tree rules
6	release	present	zoos = zoo not said here	zoos = zoo	the sea		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source

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:18.

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 ×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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