Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 12

Sea turtles eat jellyfish, and floating plastic bags look like jellyfish, so turtles sometimes swallow plastic, which can block their stomachs.

Who acts: Sea turtles, floating plastic bags, turtles, plastic · What happens: eat, float, look, swallow, block · To what, where: jellyfish, plastic, stomachs

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 (Sea turtles, floating plastic bags, turtles, plastic), 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	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turtles	compound
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 look	cc
7	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 bags	amod
8	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bags	compound
9	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 jellyfish	case
12	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swallow	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 swallow	advmod
15	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swallow	nsubj
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 swallow	advmod
17	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	parataxis
18	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swallow	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 block	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 block	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 block	aux
22	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 plastic	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 stomachs	nmod:poss
24	stomachs	stomach	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 block	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Sea turtles	jellyfish		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Patient
2	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	present	floating plastic bags		like jellyfish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	swallow	present	turtles	plastic	sometimes property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient
5	block	can	plastic	turtles's stomachs		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer stomach=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:12.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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