--- title: A seal pup alone on a beach is usually not lost: its mother may be f… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: A seal pup alone on a beach is usually not lost: its mother may be fishing nearby, so the right thing is to keep away and call a rescue group. Who acts: mother, right thing. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 4 A seal pup alone on a beach is usually not lost: its mother may be fishing nearby, so the right thing is to keep away and call a rescue group. **Who acts:** mother, right thing · **What happens:** not lose, fish, be, call · **To what, where:** seal pup, rescue group · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mother, right thing), 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:4 # text = A seal pup alone on a beach is usually not lost: its mother may be fishing nearby, so the right thing is to keep away and call a rescue group. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pup pup NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 17 fishing fish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 18 nearby nearby ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:outer _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 29 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lose** | present · passive | | a seal pup on a beach | | | | usually *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **fish** | may · progressive | pup's mother | | | | | nearby *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the right thing | | | | | away, keep *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** | infinitive | the right thing *not said here* | a rescue group | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent group=Recipient | 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:4`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/3/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)