Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 13
Seals haul out on rocks to rest, warm up and look after pups, and a thick layer of blubber keeps them warm in icy water.
Who acts: Seals, thick layer · What happens: haul out, rest, warm up, look, keep · To what, where: rocks, pups
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (Seals, thick layer), 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 | Seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 haul | nsubj |
| 2 | haul | haul | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 haul | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 rocks | case |
| 5 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 haul | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rest | mark |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 haul | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 warm | punct |
| 9 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rest | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 warm | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rest | conj |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 pups | case |
| 14 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 keeps | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 keeps | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 layer | det |
| 18 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 layer | amod |
| 19 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keeps | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 blubber | case |
| 21 | blubber | blubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 layer | nmod |
| 22 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 haul | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 keeps | obj |
| 24 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 keeps | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 water | amod |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warm | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 haul | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul out | present | Seals | rocks | out property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | Seals not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | warm up | infinitive | Seals not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | Seals not said here | after pups | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | a thick layer of blubber | pups = pup | warm 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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:13.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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