Turtles and tortoises, sentence 0

A turtle's shell is not a coat it can take off: it is part of its skeleton, with the ribs and backbone grown together into the bony plates.

Who acts: shell, it · What happens: not be, take off, be, grow · To what, where: coat, part, ribs, bony plates

This is a sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» 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 (shell, it), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turtle	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 turtle	case
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coat	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 coat	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coat	det
8	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 take	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 take	aux
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 coat	acl:relcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 take	compound:prt
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 part	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 part	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 part	cop
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coat	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 skeleton	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 skeleton	nmod:poss
19	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 part	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ribs	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 ribs	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ribs	det
23	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 part	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 backbone	cc
25	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ribs	conj
26	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ribs	acl
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 grown	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 plates	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plates	det
30	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plates	amod
31	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grown	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 coat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a turtle's shell	a coat		tree rules
2	take off	can	it	a coat not said here		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
3	is a	present	shell	part	of shell's skeleton; with the ribs and backbone	tree rules
4	grow	participle		the ribs and backbone not said here	into the bony plates result; together property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plate=Result

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:031-turtles-and-tortoises.lesson:0.

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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