Turtles and tortoises, sentence 3

Turtles are reptiles with no teeth, only a sharp beak, and they cannot make their own body heat, which is why a slider in the park pond lies on a log in the sun.

Who acts: Turtles, Tortoises, slider · What happens: be, not make, lie, heat · To what, where: reptiles, own body heat, log

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, Tortoises, slider), 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	3 reptiles	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reptiles	cop
3	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reptiles	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beak	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 beak	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 beak	det
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beak	amod
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reptiles	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 make	advmod
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reptiles	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heat	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heat	amod
20	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heat	compound
21	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 why	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 why	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 why	cop
25	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 lies	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 slider	det
27	slider	slider	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lies	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 pond	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pond	det
30	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pond	compound
31	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slider	nmod
32	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 heat	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 log	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 log	det
35	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lies	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 sun.	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sun.	det
38	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lies	obl

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	Turtles	reptiles and a sharp beak		with no teeth	tree rules
2	not make	can	Tortoises = tortoise	Tortoises's own body heat			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product
3	is	present				why property	tree rules
4	lie	present	a slider in the park pond		a log	in the sun.	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on log=Location
5	heat		Tortoises = tortoise				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: 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:3.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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