Turtles and tortoises, sentence 12

A mother sea turtle buries about 100 eggs in the sand; the babies hatch weeks later, usually dig out at night and run towards the brighter horizon over the sea.

Who acts: mother sea turtle, babies · What happens: bury, hatch, dig out, run · To what, where: 100 eggs, sand, brighter horizon

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 (mother sea turtle, babies), 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 turtle	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turtle	compound
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turtle	compound
4	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buries	nsubj
5	buries	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 100	advmod
7	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 eggs	nummod
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buries	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sand	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sand	det
11	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buries	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hatch	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 babies	det
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hatch	nsubj
15	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buries	parataxis
16	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 later	obl:unmarked
17	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 hatch	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dig	punct
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 dig	advmod
20	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hatch	conj
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 dig	compound:prt
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dig	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 run	cc
25	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dig	conj
26	towards	towards	ADP	_	29 horizon	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horizon	det
28	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 horizon	amod
29	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 run	obl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 sea	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 horizon	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 buries	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present	a mother sea turtle	100 eggs	the sand			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination
2	hatch	present	the babies				late property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	dig out	present	the babies not said here			night	usually property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	present	the babies not said here		the brighter horizon over the sea			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards horizon=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:031-turtles-and-tortoises.lesson:12.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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