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title: Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth. Who acts: Leopard seals, long teeth, penguins. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing pengui
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 6

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Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth.

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**Who acts:** Leopard seals, long teeth, penguins · **What happens:** be, catch, eat, sieve · **To what, where:** big hunters, penguins, krill, water, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (Leopard seals, long teeth, penguins), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:6
# text = Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): no change
1	Leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	krill	krill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sieving	sieve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Leopard seals | big hunters |  |  |  | with powerful jaws and long teeth | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | present | long teeth | penguins |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | penguins *= penguin* | krill |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient |
| 4 | **sieve** | gerund | penguins *= penguin* *not said here* | water |  | penguins's teeth |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): no change. **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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