--- title: Sea lions can walk on all four flippers by turning their back flippe… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Sea lions can walk on all four flippers by turning their back flippers forward and have small ear flaps; true seals, like the harbour seal, have no ear flaps and wriggle on land. Who acts: Sea lions, true seals. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 5 Sea lions can walk on all four flippers by turning their back flippers forward and have small ear flaps; true seals, like the harbour seal, have no ear flaps and wriggle on land. **Who acts:** Sea lions, true seals · **What happens:** walk, turn, have, wriggle · **To what, where:** four flippers, back flippers, small ear flaps, ear flaps, land 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 lions, true seals), 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:5 # text = Sea lions can walk on all four flippers by turning their back flippers forward and have small ear flaps; true seals, like the harbour seal, have no ear flaps and wriggle on land. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 7 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 by by SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 harbour harbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 31 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 flaps flap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 wriggle wriggle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 . . 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 | **walk** | can | Sea lions | | | all four flippers | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flipper=Trajectory | | 2 | **turn** | gerund | Sea lions *not said here* | flippers's back flippers | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flipper=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Sea lions *not said here* | small ear flaps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | true seals like the harbour seal | no ear flaps | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | | 5 | **wriggle** | infinitive | true seals like the harbour seal *not said here* | | | land | | | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=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:5`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/4/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)