--- title: The leopard seal, about 3.5 metres long, eats krill, fish, penguins… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest plac… · tree and pragmatics description: The leopard seal, about 3.5 metres long, eats krill, fish, penguins and other seals, and its back teeth lock together like a sieve to strain krill. Who acts: leopard seal, back teeth. 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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 (leopard seal, back teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:007-antarctica.lesson:9 # text = The leopard seal, about 3.5 metres long, eats krill, fish, penguins and other seals, and its back teeth lock together like a sieve to strain krill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 007-antarctica.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 3.5 3.5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Frac 7 nummod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 penguins penguin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 seals seal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lock lock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 25 together together ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sieve sieve NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 strain strain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 krill krill NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 . . 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 | **eat** | present | the leopard seal | krill and fish and penguins and other seals | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient | | 2 | **lock** | present | krill's back teeth | | | | | like a sieve; together *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **strain** | to-infinitive | krill's back teeth *not said here* | krill | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent krill=Source | 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:007-antarctica.lesson:9`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/8/) - next →: [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/)