Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 3

To a turtle, a plastic bag drifting in the water can look just like a jellyfish, which is one reason rubbish in the sea is so dangerous.

Who acts: plastic bag, jellyfish · What happens: drift, look, be · To what, where: water, reason rubbish, sea

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 (plastic bag, jellyfish), 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 turtle	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 turtle	det
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turtle	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bag	det
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bag	compound
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	nsubj
8	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 bag	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drifting	obl
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 jellyfish	advmod
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 jellyfish	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 jellyfish	det
17	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rubbish	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 rubbish	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rubbish	cop
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 reason	nummod
22	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rubbish	compound
23	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 jellyfish	appos
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 sea	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sea	det
26	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rubbish	nmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 dangerous	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 dangerous	advmod
29	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 look	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drift	gerund	a plastic bag not said here		the water		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory
2	look	can	a plastic bag			to a turtle; like a jellyfish	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to turtle=Theme
3	is a	present	a jellyfish	reason rubbish	the sea		tree rules
4	is	present	a plastic bag not said here			dangerous 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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:3.

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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