Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 7
Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female.
Who acts: turtle babies, warmer sand · What happens: hatch, bury, head, make · To what, where: eggs, sand, more
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 (turtle babies, warmer sand), 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 turtle | compound |
| 2 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 babies | compound |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hatch | nsubj |
| 4 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 eggs | case |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hatch | obl |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eggs | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sand | case |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buried | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 head | cc |
| 11 | head | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hatch | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 makes | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 makes | cc |
| 17 | warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 sand | amod |
| 18 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hatch | conj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 female | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 female | det |
| 23 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 female | compound |
| 24 | female | female | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hatch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | present | turtle babies | from eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bury | participle | eggs not said here | sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | ||||
| 3 | head | present | turtle babies not said here | for the sea | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | present | warmer sand | more | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product |
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:7.
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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