Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 2
Imagine a beach at night: tiny turtles pop out of the sand and race towards the brightest thing they can see, which is normally the moonlit sea; that is why beach towns switch off their lights in hatching season.
Who acts: you, tiny turtles, things, brightest thing, beach towns · What happens: imagine, pop out, race, see, be, switch off · To what, where: beach, sand, brightest thing, moonlit sea, lights
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 (you, tiny turtles, things, brightest thing), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beach | det |
| 3 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 pop | punct |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turtles | amod |
| 8 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pop | nsubj |
| 9 | pop | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Imagine | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pop | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 race | cc |
| 15 | race | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pop | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 thing | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 thing | det |
| 18 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 thing | amod |
| 19 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 race | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 sea | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 sea | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sea | cop |
| 26 | normally | normally | ADV | _ | 29 sea | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 28 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sea | amod |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thing | acl:relcl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 why | punct |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 why | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Imagine | parataxis |
| 33 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 switch | advmod |
| 34 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 towns | compound |
| 35 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 switch | nsubj |
| 36 | switch | switch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 is | ccomp |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 switch | compound:prt |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 lights | nmod:poss |
| 39 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 switch | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 season | case |
| 41 | hatching | hatching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 season | compound |
| 42 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 switch | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | a beach | night | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beach=Theme | |||
| 2 | pop out | present | tiny turtles | the sand | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | race | present | tiny turtles not said here | the brightest thing | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards thing=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | can | things = thing | the brightest thing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the brightest thing | the moonlit sea | normally property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | switch off | present | beach towns | things's lights | season | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | |||
| 7 | light | things = thing | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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