--- title: A girl on a beach in Cornwall sees a seal resting on the sand; she k… — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals · tree and pragmatics description: A girl on a beach in Cornwall sees a seal resting on the sand; she keeps her dog on its lead, stays well back and watches quietly, and the seal sleeps on in peace. Who acts: girl, 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 (girl, seal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.lesson:4 # text = A girl on a beach in Cornwall sees a seal resting on the sand; she keeps her dog on its lead, stays well back and watches quietly, and the seal sleeps on in peace. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 071-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Cornwall Cornwall PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 resting rest VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 lead lead NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 25 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 seal seal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:case 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | a girl on a beach in Cornwall | a seal | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Stimulus | | 2 | **rest** | gerund | a seal *not said here* | | | the sand | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location | | 3 | **keep** | present | girl | girl's dog | | dog's lead | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dog=Theme on lead=Location | | 4 | **stay** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **watch** | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | quietly *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sleep on** | present | the seal | | | peace | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location | 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. 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