--- title: A seal's whiskers feel tiny movements in the water, and in experimen… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: A seal's whiskers feel tiny movements in the water, and in experiments a blindfolded seal followed the trail of a fish model seconds after it passed. Who acts: whiskers, blindfolded seal, seal. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 10 A seal's whiskers feel tiny movements in the water, and in experiments a blindfolded seal followed the trail of a fish model seconds after it passed. **Who acts:** whiskers, blindfolded seal, seal · **What happens:** feel, blindfold, follow, pass · **To what, where:** tiny movements, water, trail, experiments 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 (whiskers, blindfolded seal, 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:10 # text = A seal's whiskers feel tiny movements in the water, and in experiments a blindfolded seal followed the trail of a fish model seconds after it passed. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 experiments experiment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 blindfolded blindfold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 model model NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 26 after after SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | present | a seal's whiskers | tiny movements | | the water | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent movement=Theme in water=Location | | 2 | **blindfold** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | past | a blindfolded seal | the trail of a model seconds | | experiments | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trail=Theme in experiment=Trajectory | | 4 | **pass** | past | seal | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:10`. **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): no change. **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, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/9/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)