Turtles and tortoises, sentence 13
Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.
Who acts: Warmer sand, bright beach lights · What happens: give, lead · To what, where: more girl hatchlings, hatchlings
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 (Warmer sand, bright beach lights), 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 | Warmer | warm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sand | amod |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 hatchlings | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hatchlings | compound |
| 6 | hatchlings | hatchling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gives | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sand | cc |
| 8 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 sand | amod |
| 9 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hatchlings | conj |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 boys | amod |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hatchlings | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lead | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lead | cc |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lights | amod |
| 15 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lights | compound |
| 16 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lead | aux |
| 18 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gives | conj |
| 19 | hatchlings | hatchling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lead | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lead | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Warmer sand | more girl hatchlings and cooler sand and more boys | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | can | bright beach lights | hatchlings | the wrong way obl:unmarked | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Theme |
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:13.
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, 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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