Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines, sentence 8
Bright beach lights confuse turtle hatchlings, which crawl towards the lights instead of the moonlit sea.
Who acts: Bright beach lights, turtle hatchlings · What happens: confuse, crawl · To what, where: turtle hatchlings, lights
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 (Bright beach lights, turtle hatchlings), 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 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lights | amod |
| 2 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lights | compound |
| 3 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confuse | nsubj |
| 4 | confuse | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hatchlings | compound |
| 6 | hatchlings | hatchling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confuse | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hatchlings | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 crawl | nsubj |
| 9 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hatchlings | acl:relcl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 lights | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lights | det |
| 12 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crawl | obl |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 17 sea | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 16 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sea | amod |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crawl | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confuse | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | present | Bright beach lights | turtle hatchlings | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Patient | ||||
| 2 | crawl | present | turtle hatchlings | the lights | instead the moonlit sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination |
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:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes.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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