--- title: Otters keep in touch with squeaks, chirps and whistles, and they cam… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Otters keep in touch with squeaks, chirps and whistles, and they came back to many British rivers after harmful farm chemicals, which had poisoned otters and the fish they ate, were banned. Who acts: Otters, harmful farm chemicals. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biolog --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 16 Otters keep in touch with squeaks, chirps and whistles, and they came back to many British rivers after harmful farm chemicals, which had poisoned otters and the fish they ate, were banned. **Who acts:** Otters, harmful farm chemicals · **What happens:** keep, come back, poison, eat, ban · **To what, where:** touch, many British rivers, otters, fish 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 (Otters, harmful farm chemicals), 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:16 # text = Otters keep in touch with squeaks, chirps and whistles, and they came back to many British rivers after harmful farm chemicals, which had poisoned otters and the fish they ate, were banned. # 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 1 Otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 squeaks squeak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 chirps chirp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 whistles whistle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 chemicals chemical NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 poisoned poison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | Otters | | | touch with squeaks and chirps and whistles | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location | | 2 | **come back** | past | otters *= otter* | | | many British rivers after harmful farm chemicals | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **poison** | past · perfect | harmful farm chemicals | otters and the fish | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent otter=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | past | otters *= otter* | the fish *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | | 5 | **ban** | past · passive | harmful farm chemicals *not said here* | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» | 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:16`. **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. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/15/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)