--- title: Elephant seals can dive over 1,500 metres deep and stay under for mo… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Elephant seals can dive over 1,500 metres deep and stay under for more than an hour, storing oxygen in their blood and muscles and slowing their heart. Who acts: Elephant seals. A sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 16 Elephant seals can dive over 1,500 metres deep and stay under for more than an hour, storing oxygen in their blood and muscles and slowing their heart. **Who acts:** Elephant seals · **What happens:** dive, stay, store, slow · **To what, where:** oxygen, blood, heart 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 (Elephant seals), 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:16 # text = Elephant seals can dive over 1,500 metres deep and stay under for more than an hour, storing oxygen in their blood and muscles and slowing their heart. # 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 ×1 1 Elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 dive dive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 1,500 1,500 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl 8 deep deep ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 under under ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ _ 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 storing store VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 slowing slow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dive** | can | Elephant seals | | | | | deep *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **stay** | infinitive | Elephant seals *not said here* | | | | hour | under *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **store** | gerund | Elephant seals *not said here* | oxygen | | metres's blood and muscles | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme in blood=Location | | 4 | **slow** | gerund | Elephant seals *not said here* | muscles's heart | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | 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:16`. **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 ×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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/15/) - next →: [Dolphins, porpoises and seals, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)