--- title: Their senses are tuned for the sea: a seal's whiskers feel the swirl… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Their senses are tuned for the sea: a seal's whiskers feel the swirling trail left by a fish, so it can follow a fish it cannot even see. Who acts: whiskers, seal, rocks. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 2 Their senses are tuned for the sea: a seal's whiskers feel the swirling trail left by a fish, so it can follow a fish it cannot even see. **Who acts:** whiskers, seal, rocks · **What happens:** tune, feel, swirl, leave, follow, not see · **To what, where:** senses, swirling trail, 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 (whiskers, seal, rocks), 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:2 # text = Their senses are tuned for the sea: a seal's whiskers feel the swirling trail left by a fish, so it can follow a fish it cannot even see. # 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 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 senses sense NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 tuned tune VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 swirling swirl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 amod _ _ 16 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tune** | present · passive | | rocks's senses | | | | for the sea | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | present | a seal's whiskers | the swirling trail | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 3 | **swirl** | gerund | | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **leave** | participle | | the swirling trail *not said here* | | | | by a fish | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by fish=Location | | 5 | **follow** | can | seal | a fish | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 6 | **not** **see** | can | seal | a fish *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | | 7 | **sense** | | rocks *= rock* | | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/1/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)