Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 7

Trainers use a whistle to say «yes, that's right» at the exact moment, then give a fish, so sea lions learn to open their mouths and lie still for vet checks without sleep medicine.

Who acts: Trainers, that, sea lions · What happens: use, say, be, give, learn, open · To what, where: whistle, fish, mouths · 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 (Trainers, that, sea lions), 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	Trainers	trainer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whistle	det
4	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
8	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 right	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 right	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 use	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 moment	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moment	det
16	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moment	amod
17	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 moment	punct
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 give	advmod
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 use	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fish	det
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learn	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 learn	advmod
25	sea	sea	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lions	compound
26	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 learn	nsubj
27	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 use	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 open	mark
29	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 learn	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mouths	nmod:poss
31	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 open	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lie	cc
33	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 open	conj
34	still	still	ADV	_	33 lie	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 checks	case
36	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 checks	compound
37	checks	check	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lie	obl
38	without	without	ADP	_	40 medicine	case
39	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 medicine	compound
40	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lie	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Trainers	a whistle			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Trainers not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	that			right property	tree rules
4	give	infinitive		a fish	then; moment		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
5	learn	present	sea lions				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	open	to-infinitive	sea lions not said here	Trainers's mouths			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
7	lie	infinitive	sea lions not said here		still	for vet checks; without sleep medicine	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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