--- title: Sea otters hold paws or wrap themselves in kelp while sleeping so th… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Sea otters hold paws or wrap themselves in kelp while sleeping so they do not drift apart, and they have the thickest fur of any animal instead of a fat layer. Who acts: Sea otters, otters. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 11 Sea otters hold paws or wrap themselves in kelp while sleeping so they do not drift apart, and they have the thickest fur of any animal instead of a fat layer. **Who acts:** Sea otters, otters · **What happens:** hold, wrap, sleep, not drift apart, have · **To what, where:** paws, kelp, thickest fur 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 otters, otters), 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:11 # text = Sea otters hold paws or wrap themselves in kelp while sleeping so they do not drift apart, and they have the thickest fur of any animal instead of a fat layer. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 7 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 kelp kelp NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 drift drift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 17 apart apart ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 thickest thick ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 amod _ _ 24 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 32 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 fat fat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 32 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | present | Sea otters | paws | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | | 2 | **wrap** | present | Sea otters *not said here* | paws *= paw* | | kelp | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in kelp=Destination | | 3 | **sleep** | gerund | Sea otters *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **drift apart** | present · do-support | otters *= otter* | | | | | apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | present | otters *= otter* | the thickest fur of any animal | | | | instead a fat layer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=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:11`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/10/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)