Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 4

A seal pup alone on a beach is usually not lost: its mother may be fishing nearby, so the right thing is to keep away and call a rescue group.

Who acts: mother, right thing · What happens: not lose, fish, be, call · To what, where: seal pup, rescue group · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (mother, right thing), 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 pup	det
2	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pup	compound
3	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	nsubj:pass
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 pup	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pup	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux:pass
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	11 lost	advmod
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 lost	advmod
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fishing	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fishing	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 fishing	aux
17	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 lost	parataxis
18	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	17 fishing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 keep	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	26 keep	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thing	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	nsubj:outer
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 keep	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 fishing	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 keep	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 call	cc
29	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 keep	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 group	det
31	rescue	rescue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 group	compound
32	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 call	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lost	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not lose	present · passive		a seal pup on a beach	usually property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	fish	may · progressive	pup's mother		nearby property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the right thing		away, keep property	tree rules
4	call	infinitive	the right thing not said here	a rescue group		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient

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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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