Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 9

The East Australian Current is real: it carries warm water south along the coast of Australia, and turtles and fish use currents to travel with less effort.

Who acts: Australian Current, Current, turtles · What happens: be, carry, use, travel · To what, where: warm water, currents

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 (Australian Current, Current, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Current	det
2	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Australian	compound
3	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Current	amod
4	Current	Current	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 real	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 carries	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carries	nsubj
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	parataxis
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obj
12	south	south	ADV	_	9 carries	advmod
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 coast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coast	det
15	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Australia	case
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 coast	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 use	cc
20	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fish	cc
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turtles	conj
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	parataxis
24	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 use	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 travel	mark
26	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	advcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 effort	case
28	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 effort	amod
29	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 travel	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 real	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Australian Current		real property	tree rules
2	carry	present	Current	warm water	along the coast of Australia; south property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	use	present	turtles and fish	currents		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Patient
4	travel	to-infinitive	turtles and fish not said here		with less effort	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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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