Turtles and tortoises, sentence 14

Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature.

Who acts: Many female sea turtles, eggs, turtle · What happens: come back, lay, hatch, think, remember, sign · To what, where: eggs, beach, magnetic signature · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many female sea turtles, eggs, turtle), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turtles	amod
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turtles	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turtles	compound
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 think	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turtles	acl:relcl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lay	mark
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 hatched	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hatched	nsubj
15	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 beach	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 turtles	punct
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 think	nsubj
18	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 remember	nsubj
20	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 think	ccomp
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 signature	nmod:poss
22	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 signature	amod
23	signature	signature	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remember	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come back	present	Many female sea turtles not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	to-infinitive	Many female sea turtles not said here	eggs	the beach	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination
3	hatch	past	eggs = egg			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	think speech: other	present	Many female sea turtles			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	remember	present	eggs = egg	turtle's magnetic signature		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent signature=Theme
6	sign		turtle			nom signature «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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:14.

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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