--- title: The quickest way to tell them apart is to count and look: a sea lion… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: The quickest way to tell them apart is to count and look: a sea lion has small ear flaps and can turn its back flippers forward, a true seal has only ear holes and cannot. Who acts: quickest way, sea lion, true seal. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quickest way, sea lion, true 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:1 # text = The quickest way to tell them apart is to count and look: a sea lion has small ear flaps and can turn its back flippers forward, a true seal has only ear holes and cannot. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 quickest quick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 apart apart ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 forward forward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 33 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the quickest way *not said here* | | rocks *= rock* | | | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | the quickest way | | | | | count *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | the quickest way *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | present | a sea lion | small ear flaps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | | 5 | **turn** | can | a sea lion *not said here* | lion's back flippers | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flipper=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | a true seal | ear holes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | 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:1`. **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 ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/0/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)