--- title: A sea lion claps its flippers and walks up the rocks on all four, wh… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: A sea lion claps its flippers and walks up the rocks on all four, while a harbour seal next door wriggles on its belly and floats upright asleep like a bottle in the water. Who acts: sea lion, harbour seal. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Sea lions, seals and otters](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/) / 0 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 0 A sea lion claps its flippers and walks up the rocks on all four, while a harbour seal next door wriggles on its belly and floats upright asleep like a bottle in the water. **Who acts:** sea lion, harbour seal · **What happens:** clap, walk up, wriggle, float · **To what, where:** flippers, rocks, four, belly 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 (sea lion, harbour seal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters.lesson:0 # text = A sea lion claps its flippers and walks up the rocks on all four, while a harbour seal next door wriggles on its belly and floats upright asleep like a bottle in the water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 claps clap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 22 wriggles wriggle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nmod 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 upright upright ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clap** | present | a sea lion | lion's flippers | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flipper=Theme | | 2 | **walk up** | present | a sea lion *not said here* | the rocks | | all four | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rock=Theme on four=Trajectory | | 3 | **wriggle** | present | a harbour seal | | | lion's belly | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **float** | present | a harbour seal *not said here* | | | | | like a bottle in the water; upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:0`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The penguin pool, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/99-the-penguin-pool/17/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)