Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 8

Sea turtles travel thousands of kilometres across oceans, often riding ocean currents, and many females return to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched.

Who acts: Sea turtles, many females, females · What happens: travel, ride, return, lay, hatch · To what, where: thousands, oceans, ocean currents, eggs, 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, 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	3 travel	nsubj
3	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 kilometres	case
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 oceans	case
8	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travel	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 travel	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 riding	advmod
11	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 travel	advcl
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 currents	compound
13	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 riding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 return	cc
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 females	amod
17	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 return	nsubj
18	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 travel	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lay	mark
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 return	advcl
21	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lay	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 beach	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beach	det
24	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obl
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 hatched	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hatched	nsubj
27	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beach	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travel	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Sea turtles	thousands of kilometres	oceans		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory
2	ride	gerund	Sea turtles not said here	ocean currents		often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Theme
3	return	present	many females				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay	to-infinitive	many females not said here	eggs	the beach		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination
5	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:8.

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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