Turtles and tortoises, sentence 1

So when a box turtle in the garden pulls in its head and legs and shuts the hinge underneath, it is hiding inside its own ribs, like a house that is also a shield.

Who acts: box turtle, turtle, house · What happens: pull in, shut, hide, be · To what, where: head, hinge, own ribs, shield

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 (box turtle, turtle, house), 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	So	so	ADV	_	23 hiding	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 pulls	mark
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 turtle	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turtle	compound
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turtle	nmod
9	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hiding	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	9 pulls	compound:prt
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pulls	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 legs	cc
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 head	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shuts	cc
16	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pulls	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hinge	det
18	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shuts	obj
19	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	16 shuts	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hiding	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hiding	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hiding	aux
23	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
24	inside	inside	ADP	_	27 ribs	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ribs	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ribs	amod
27	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hiding	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 house	punct
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ribs	appos
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 shield	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 shield	cop
34	also	also	ADV	_	36 shield	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shield	det
36	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 hiding	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull in	present	a box turtle in the garden	turtle's head and legs			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shut	present	a box turtle in the garden not said here	the hinge		underneath property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hinge=Patient
3	hide	present · progressive	turtle		turtle's own ribs		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside rib=Location
4	is a	present	a house	a shield			tree rules

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:1.

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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