Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 13

Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out.

Who acts: Leatherback turtles, spikes · What happens: eat, line, keep, slide, amount · To what, where: huge amounts, throats, slippery food, jellyfish

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 (Leatherback turtles, spikes), 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	Leatherback	leatherback	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	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amounts	amod
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 jellyfish	case
7	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 amounts	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lined	cc
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 throats	nmod:poss
11	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lined	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lined	aux:pass
13	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 eat	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 spikes	case
15	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lined	obl
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 keep	nsubj
17	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 spikes	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
19	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 food	amod
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
21	from	from	SCONJ	_	22 sliding	mark
22	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 keep	advcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	24 out	advmod
24	out	out	ADV	_	22 sliding	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Leatherback turtles	huge amounts of jellyfish		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient
2	line	present · passive		turtles's throats	with spikes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with spike=Theme
3	keep	present	spikes	the slippery food		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
4	slide	gerund	spikes not said here		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	amount			jellyfish		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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