Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 15
A seal pup alone on a beach is usually waiting for its mother, who may not return if people come close, so stay well away, keep dogs on a lead and call a wildlife rescue only if it looks hurt.
Who acts: seal pup, mother, people, seal · What happens: wait, not return, come, stay, keep, call · To what, where: dogs, lead, wildlife rescue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (seal pup, mother, people, seal), 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 | 10 waiting | nsubj |
| 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 | 10 waiting | aux |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 waiting | advmod |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 return | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 return | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 return | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 return | advmod |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mother | acl:relcl |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 come | mark |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 come | nsubj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 return | advcl |
| 22 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 come | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stay | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 stay | advmod |
| 25 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 waiting | parataxis |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 away | advmod |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 stay | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 keep | punct |
| 29 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stay | conj |
| 30 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 keep | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 lead | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lead | det |
| 33 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 keep | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 call | cc |
| 35 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 stay | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rescue | det |
| 37 | wildlife | wildlife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rescue | compound |
| 38 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 call | obj |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 looks | advmod |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 looks | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 looks | nsubj |
| 42 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 call | advcl |
| 43 | hurt | hurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 looks | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | a seal pup on a beach | for beach's mother; usually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not return | may | beach's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | people | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | dogs | a lead | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location | ||||
| 6 | call | infinitive | a wildlife rescue | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescue=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | look a condition, not said to happen | present | seal | hurt property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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 ×2. 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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