Turtles and tortoises, sentence 4

Some do amazing things: sea turtles find their home beach after thirty years at sea, and one Australian turtle takes oxygen from water through its bottom.

Who acts: sea turtles, one Australian turtle · What happens: find, take · To what, where: home beach, oxygen, water

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 (sea turtles, one Australian 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	aux
3	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turtles	compound
7	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	parataxis
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 beach	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beach	compound
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 sea	case
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 years	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 takes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 takes	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 turtle	nummod
20	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turtle	amod
21	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 takes	nsubj
22	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 things	conj
23	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 takes	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 water	case
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 takes	obl
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 bottom	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bottom	nmod:poss
28	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 takes	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	sea turtles	Tortoises's home beach			year		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Topic
2	take	present	one Australian turtle	oxygen		water		through turtle's bottom	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from water=Initial_Location

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:4.

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, R6-punct-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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