--- title: Trainers use a whistle to say «yes, that's right» at the exact momen… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics description: Trainers use a whistle to say «yes, that's right» at the exact moment, then give a fish, so sea lions learn to open their mouths and lie still for vet checks without sleep medicine. Who acts: Trainers, that, sea lions. A sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» of the biology course of M --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 7 Trainers use a whistle to say «yes, that's right» at the exact moment, then give a fish, so sea lions learn to open their mouths and lie still for vet checks without sleep medicine. **Who acts:** Trainers, that, sea lions · **What happens:** use, say, be, give, learn, open · **To what, where:** whistle, fish, mouths · **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 (Trainers, that, 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:7 # text = Trainers use a whistle to say «yes, that's right» at the exact moment, then give a fish, so sea lions learn to open their mouths and lie still for vet checks without sleep medicine. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Trainers trainer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 8 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 12 discourse _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 11 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 sea sea ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:amod 26 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 open open VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mouths mouth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 still still ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:advmod 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 checks check NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:obj 38 without without ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:nmod 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Trainers | a whistle | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Trainers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | | a fish | | | then; moment | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | present | sea lions | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **open** | to-infinitive | sea lions *not said here* | Trainers's mouths | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 7 | **lie** | infinitive | sea lions *not said here* | | | | still | for vet checks; without sleep medicine | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:7`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/6/) - next →: [Sea lions, seals and otters, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/)