Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 2

Sea turtles are the great wanderers: a baby crawls from its sand nest to the sea at night, swims thousands of kilometres for years, and many females come back to lay eggs on the very beach where they hatched.

Who acts: Sea turtles, baby, many females, females · What happens: be, crawl, swim, come back, lay, hatch · To what, where: great wanderers, sand nest, thousands, eggs, very beach

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 (Sea turtles, baby, many females, females), 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	6 wanderers	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wanderers	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wanderers	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wanderers	amod
6	wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 crawls	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawls	nsubj
10	crawls	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wanderers	parataxis
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 nest	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nest	nmod:poss
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nest	compound
14	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawls	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawls	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crawls	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swims	punct
21	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crawls	conj
22	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 swims	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 kilometres	case
24	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thousands	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 years	case
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 swims	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
29	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 females	amod
30	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 come	nsubj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crawls	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lay	mark
34	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	advcl
35	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 beach	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beach	det
38	very	very	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 beach	amod
39	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lay	obl
40	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 hatched	advmod
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hatched	nsubj
42	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 beach	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wanderers	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Sea turtles	the great wanderers				tree rules
2	crawl	present	a baby		baby's sand nest	night	to the sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory
3	swim	present	a baby not said here	thousands of kilometres		year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come back	present	many females					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	to-infinitive	many females not said here	eggs	the very beach			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination
6	hatch	past	females = female					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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 ×3. 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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