What a child can do for nature, sentence 14
Bright lights at night confuse moths and migrating birds, and baby sea turtles crawl towards lights instead of towards the sea.
Who acts: Bright lights, baby sea turtles · What happens: confuse, migrate, crawl · To what, where: moths, lights
This is a sentence of the lesson «What a child can do for nature» 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 lights, baby sea turtles), 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 | 2 lights | amod |
| 2 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confuse | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lights | nmod |
| 5 | confuse | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confuse | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 birds | cc |
| 8 | migrating | migrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 moths | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 crawl | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crawl | cc |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turtles | compound |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turtles | compound |
| 14 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crawl | nsubj |
| 15 | crawl | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 confuse | conj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 lights | case |
| 17 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crawl | obl |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 22 sea | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 instead | fixed |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crawl | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 confuse | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | present | Bright lights at night | moths and migrating birds | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | migrate | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | crawl | present | baby sea turtles | lights | instead the 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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:14.
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 ×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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