Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 7

Green sea turtles probably live 80 years or more, but 150 years is more than scientists know of, and they may not have babies until they are 20 to 40 years old.

Who acts: Green sea turtles, 150 years, scientists · What happens: live, be, know, not have · To what, where: babies

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 (Green sea turtles, 150 years, scientists), 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	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turtles	amod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtles	compound
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl:unmarked
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 more	cc
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 years	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 more	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 more	cc
12	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 more	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	cop
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 live	conj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 know	mark
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 more	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	18 know	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 have	advmod
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 live	conj
26	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	34 old	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 old	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 old	cop
30	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 years	nummod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 40	case
32	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 20	nmod
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 old	obl:unmarked
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 have	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Green sea turtles		year	probably property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	150 years			more property	tree rules
3	know	present	scientists				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not have	may	scientists = scientist	babies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient
5	is	present	scientists = scientist		year	old property	tree rules

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:7.

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, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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