--- title: Seals haul out on rocks to rest, warm up and look after pups, and a… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Seals haul out on rocks to rest, warm up and look after pups, and a thick layer of blubber keeps them warm in icy water. Who acts: Seals, thick layer. A sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/13/) [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/) / [Dolphins, porpoises and seals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/) / 13 # Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 13 Seals haul out on rocks to rest, warm up and look after pups, and a thick layer of blubber keeps them warm in icy water. **Who acts:** Seals, thick layer · **What happens:** haul out, rest, warm up, look, keep · **To what, where:** rocks, pups This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (Seals, thick layer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:13 # text = Seals haul out on rocks to rest, warm up and look after pups, and a thick layer of blubber keeps them warm in icy water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.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 1 Seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 haul haul VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 13 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 pups pup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 blubber blubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **haul out** | present | Seals | | | rocks | | out *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Seals *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **warm up** | infinitive | Seals *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | Seals *not said here* | | | | after pups | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **keep** | present | a thick layer of blubber | pups *= pup* | | | | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/12/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)