Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 8
Sea turtles have lived in the oceans since the time of the dinosaurs.
Who acts: Sea turtles · What happens: live · To what, where: oceans
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), 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 | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 oceans | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 oceans | det |
| 7 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dinosaurs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dinosaurs | det |
| 13 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 time | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | Sea turtles | the oceans | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ocean=Location |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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