--- title: Harp seal pups are born white on the ice, turn grey after a few week… — The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-ye… · tree and pragmatics description: Harp seal pups are born white on the ice, turn grey after a few weeks, and grow very fast on milk that is about half fat, building a thick layer of fat called blubber before they must swim in icy water. Who acts: milk, fat, pups. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (milk, fat, pups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:14 # text = Harp seal pups are born white on the ice, turn grey after a few weeks, and grow very fast on milk that is about half fat, building a thick layer of fat called blubber before they must swim in icy water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Harp harp NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 turn turn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advmod 27 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 28 amod _ _ 28 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 36 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 blubber blubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obj 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | present · passive | | seal pups | | the ice | | white *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | infinitive | | | | | week | grey *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | present | | | | milk | | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on milk=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | milk | half fat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **build** | gerund | | a thick layer of fat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset layer=Product | | 6 | **call** | participle | fat *not said here* | blubber | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **swim** | must | pups *= pup* | | | icy water | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | 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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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. 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