--- title: Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fi… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics description: Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old. Who acts: Seal whiskers, blindfolded seal, water trail. A sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 17 Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old. **Who acts:** Seal whiskers, blindfolded seal, water trail · **What happens:** be, blindfold, follow · **To what, where:** water trail 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 (Seal whiskers, blindfolded seal, water trail), 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:17 # text = Seal whiskers are so sensitive that a blindfolded seal followed a fish's water trail that was more than 30 seconds old. # 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 Seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 sensitive sensitive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 blindfolded blindfold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 19 than than ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Seal whiskers | | | | | sensitive *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **blindfold** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | past | a blindfolded seal | a fish's water trail | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | a fish's water trail | | | | second | old *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/16/) - next →: [Sharks, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/)