Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 2

Their senses are tuned for the sea: a seal's whiskers feel the swirling trail left by a fish, so it can follow a fish it cannot even see.

Who acts: whiskers, seal, rocks · What happens: tune, feel, swirl, leave, follow, not see · To what, where: senses, swirling trail, fish

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, seal, rocks), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 senses	nmod:poss
2	senses	sense	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tuned	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tuned	aux:pass
4	tuned	tune	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tuned	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 seal	det
10	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whiskers	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 seal	case
12	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tuned	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trail	det
15	swirling	swirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 trail	amod
16	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feel	obj
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 trail	acl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 fish	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fish	det
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 follow	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 follow	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 follow	aux
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tuned	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fish	det
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 see	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 see	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 see	advmod
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fish	acl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tuned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tune	present · passive		rocks's senses	for the sea	tree rules
2	feel	present	a seal's whiskers	the swirling trail		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
3	swirl	gerund				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	participle		the swirling trail not said here	by a fish	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by fish=Location
5	follow	can	seal	a fish		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
6	not see	can	seal	a fish not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus
7	sense		rocks = rock			nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:2.

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. 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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