Turtles and tortoises, sentence 15

Turtles bask in the sun to warm up and to make vitamin D for strong shells; pet turtles can carry salmonella germs, so wash your hands after touching one.

Who acts: Turtles, pet turtles · What happens: bask, warm up, make, carry, wash, touch · To what, where: sun, vitamin D, salmonella germs, hands, one

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 (Turtles, pet turtles), 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	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bask	nsubj
2	bask	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bask	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 warm	mark
7	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bask	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 warm	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 make	mark
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 warm	conj
12	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 D	compound
13	D	D	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 shells	case
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shells	amod
16	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 carry	punct
18	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 turtles	compound
19	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 carry	aux
21	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bask	parataxis
22	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 germs	compound
23	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 carry	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wash	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 wash	advmod
26	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bask	conj
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 wash	obj
29	after	after	SCONJ	_	30 touching	mark
30	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 wash	advcl
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 touching	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bask	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bask	present	Turtles		the sun		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	warm up	to-infinitive	Turtles not said here				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	Turtles not said here	vitamin D		for strong shells	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent d=Product for shell=Asset
4	carry	can	pet turtles	salmonella germs			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	wash	infinitive	Turtles not said here	your hands			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	touch	gerund	Turtles not said here	one			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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:15.

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): 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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