What a child can do for nature, sentence 9
Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish and swallow them; litter picks on beaches should be done with gloves and with adults.
Who acts: Sea turtles · What happens: mistake, float, swallow, do · To what, where: floating plastic bags, bags, litter picks
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 (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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turtles | compound |
| 2 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mistake | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistake | aux |
| 4 | mistake | mistake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bags | amod |
| 6 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bags | amod |
| 7 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mistake | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 jellyfish | case |
| 9 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mistake | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 swallow | cc |
| 11 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mistake | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 swallow | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 picks | punct |
| 14 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 picks | compound |
| 15 | picks | pick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 done | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 beaches | case |
| 17 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 picks | nmod |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 done | aux:pass |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mistake | parataxis |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gloves | case |
| 22 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 adults | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 adults | case |
| 25 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gloves | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistake | 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 | mistake | can | Sea turtles | floating plastic bags | for jellyfish | tree rules | |||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | swallow | infinitive | Sea turtles not said here | bags = bag | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | should · passive | litter picks on beaches | with gloves and adults | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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