Turtles and tortoises, sentence 11
A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, which is one big reason to keep plastic out of the sea.
Who acts: floating plastic bag, leatherback · What happens: float, look, be, keep · To what, where: one big reason, plastic, sea
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 (floating plastic bag, leatherback), 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 | 4 bag | det |
| 2 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 bag | amod |
| 3 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bag | compound |
| 4 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 jellyfish | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 jellyfish | det |
| 8 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 leatherback | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 leatherback | det |
| 11 | leatherback | leatherback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looks | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reason | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 reason | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reason | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 reason | nummod |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 reason | amod |
| 17 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leatherback | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reason | acl |
| 20 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | a floating plastic bag | like a jellyfish; to a leatherback | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to leatherback=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a leatherback | one big reason | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | a floating plastic bag not said here | plastic | the sea | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme out sea=Location |
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:11.
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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