--- title: A seal pup alone on a beach is usually waiting for its mother, who m… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: A seal pup alone on a beach is usually waiting for its mother, who may not return if people come close, so stay well away, keep dogs on a lead and call a wildlife rescue only if it looks hurt. Who acts: seal pup, mother, people, seal. 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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 (seal pup, mother, people, seal), 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:15 # text = A seal pup alone on a beach is usually waiting for its mother, who may not return if people come close, so stay well away, keep dogs on a lead and call a wildlife rescue only if it looks hurt. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 pup pup NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:parataxis 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 26 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 30 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 wildlife wildlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 rescue rescue NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 if if SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 43 hurt hurt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | present · progressive | a seal pup on a beach | | | | | for beach's mother; usually *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **return** | may | beach's mother | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | infinitive | | dogs | | a lead | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location | | 6 | **call** | infinitive | | a wildlife rescue | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rescue=Recipient | | 7 | **look** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | seal | | | | | hurt *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/14/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)