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title: Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the r… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks. Who acts: Sea lions. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 6

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Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks.

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**Who acts:** Sea lions · **What happens:** squabble

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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), 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:6
# text = Sea lions often squabble loudly over the best resting spots on the rocks.
# 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	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	squabble	squabble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
9	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squabble** | present | Sea lions |  |  |  |  | over the best resting spots on the rocks; loudly, often *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over spot=Theme |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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/).

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