Turtles and tortoises, sentence 2

Tortoises are the turtles that live only on land, with high domed shells and thick legs like an elephant's; water turtles have flatter shells and webbed feet or flippers.

Who acts: Tortoises, turtles, water turtles · What happens: be, live, have, web · To what, where: turtles, land, flatter shells

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 (Tortoises, turtles, water 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	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turtles	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turtles	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 turtles	det
4	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turtles	acl:relcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 land	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 land	case
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 shells	case
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shells	amod
13	domed	dome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shells	amod
14	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 legs	cc
16	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shells	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 elephant	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 elephant	det
20	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shells	nmod
21	's	's	PART	_	20 elephant	case
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turtles	compound
24	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 live	parataxis
26	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 shells	amod
27	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 have	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 feet	cc
29	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 feet	amod
30	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shells	conj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 flippers	cc
32	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 feet	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turtles	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Tortoises	the turtles			tree rules
2	live	present	the turtles		land	with high domed shells like a elephant and thick legs	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with shell=Location
3	have	present	water turtles	flatter shells and webbed feet or flippers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
4	web	participle					tree rules

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:2.

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 ×3. 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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