Turtles and tortoises, sentence 5

Cartoon turtles step out of their shells and walk about in pants, but a real turtle never could: without its shell it would have no ribs and no spine.

Who acts: Cartoon turtles, turtle · What happens: step out, walk, have · To what, where: shells, pants, ribs

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 (Cartoon turtles, 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	Cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turtles	compound
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 step	nsubj
3	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 shells	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 shells	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shells	nmod:poss
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 step	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 walk	cc
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 step	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 pants	case
12	pants	pants	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 walk	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 turtle	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 turtle	amod
17	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 could	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 could	advmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
21	without	without	ADP	_	23 shell	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shell	nmod:poss
23	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 step	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 ribs	det
28	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 have	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 spine	cc
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 spine	det
31	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ribs	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 step	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	step out	present	Cartoon turtles	Tortoises's shells			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location shell=Theme
2	walk	present	Cartoon turtles not said here		pants	about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pants=Trajectory
3	have	would	turtle	no ribs and no spine		without turtle's shell	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient

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:5.

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 ×4. 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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