--- title: Some zoos and aquariums rescue seal pups that are ill or have lost t… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Some zoos and aquariums rescue seal pups that are ill or have lost their mothers, feed them until they are strong and release them into the sea. Who acts: zoos, seal pups. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 18 Some zoos and aquariums rescue seal pups that are ill or have lost their mothers, feed them until they are strong and release them into the sea. **Who acts:** zoos, seal pups · **What happens:** rescue, be, lose, feed, release · **To what, where:** seal pups, mothers, zoos, sea 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 (zoos, seal pups), 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:18 # text = Some zoos and aquariums rescue seal pups that are ill or have lost their mothers, feed them until they are strong and release them into the sea. # 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 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 aquariums aquarium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 rescue rescue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 until until SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 release release VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 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 | **rescue** | present | some zoos and aquariums | seal pups | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pup=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | seal pups | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | present · perfect | seal pups *not said here* | zoos's mothers | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality | | 4 | **feed** | present | some zoos and aquariums *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | zoos *= zoo* | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **release** | present | zoos *= zoo* *not said here* | zoos *= zoo* | | the sea | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | 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:18`. **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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/17/) - next →: [The African savanna area: giraffes, ze…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)