Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 3

Sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells like Squirt does, and to a hungry turtle a floating plastic bag looks just like a jellyfish.

Who acts: Sea turtles, floating plastic bag · What happens: not pull, float, look · To what, where: heads, shells

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 bag), 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	5 pull	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pull	advmod
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 shells	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shells	nmod:poss
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Squirt	case
12	Squirt	squirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shells	nmod
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looks	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looks	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 turtle	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 turtle	det
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 turtle	amod
19	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looks	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bag	det
21	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 bag	amod
22	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bag	amod
23	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looks	nsubj
24	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pull	conj
25	just	just	ADV	_	28 jellyfish	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 jellyfish	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 jellyfish	det
28	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looks	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pull	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not pull	can	Sea turtles	turtles's heads	turtles's shells like Squirt		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	present	a floating plastic bag			to a hungry turtle; like a jellyfish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to turtle=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:3.

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. 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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