Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 10

Turtle hatchlings climb out of their nests at night and head for the brightest horizon, usually the sea; street and hotel lights can lead them the wrong way.

Who acts: Turtle hatchlings, street lights · What happens: climb, head, lead · To what, where: nests, hatchlings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 (Turtle hatchlings, street lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hatchlings	compound
2	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	nsubj
3	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 nests	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 nests	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 nests	nmod:poss
7	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 head	cc
11	head	head	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 horizon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horizon	det
14	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 horizon	amod
15	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sea	punct
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	19 sea	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horizon	appos
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lights	compound
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hotel	cc
23	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 street	conj
24	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lead	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 lead	aux
26	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 climb	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lead	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lead	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	Turtle hatchlings		hatchlings's nests	night		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nest=Trajectory
2	head	present	Turtle hatchlings not said here				for the brightest horizon	vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lead	can	street lights	hatchlings = hatchling			the wrong way obl:unmarked	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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, 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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:10.

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): 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.

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