Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 14

Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, and this helps corals have more space to grow.

Who acts: Hawksbill turtles, many other animals, this, corals · What happens: eat, not eat, help, have, grow · To what, where: sponges, more space

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 (Hawksbill turtles, many other animals, this, corals), 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	Hawksbill	hawksbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turtles	compound
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 eat	obj
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sponges	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 helps	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 helps	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 helps	nsubj
15	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	conj
16	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 helps	xcomp
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 space	amod
19	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grow	mark
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 space	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Hawksbill turtles	sponges	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient
2	not eat	can	many other animals	sponges	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	help	present	this		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	infinitive	corals	more space	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient
5	grow	to-infinitive	corals not said here	more space not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:14.

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): 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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