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title: Weddell seals live farther south than any other mammal and keep brea… — Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-bloode… · tree and pragmatics
description: Weddell seals live farther south than any other mammal and keep breathing holes open in the ice, and their underwater calls sound like science fiction lasers. Who acts: Weddell seals, underwater calls, seals. A sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-
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# Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 7

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Weddell seals live farther south than any other mammal and keep breathing holes open in the ice, and their underwater calls sound like science fiction lasers.

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**Who acts:** Weddell seals, underwater calls, seals · **What happens:** live, keep, breathe, sound, call · **To what, where:** holes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Weddell seals, underwater calls, seals), 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:7
# text = Weddell seals live farther south than any other mammal and keep breathing holes open in the ice, and their underwater calls sound like science fiction lasers.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Weddell	Weddell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	south	south	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
12	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	underwater	underwater	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lasers	laser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **live** | present | Weddell seals |  |  |  |  | south *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Weddell seals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **breathe** | gerund | Weddell seals *not said here* | holes |  |  |  | open *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | present | seals's underwater calls |  |  |  |  | like fiction lasers | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **call** |  | seals *= seal* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R8-pos-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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