Turtles and tortoises, sentence 6

A turtle's shell is part of its skeleton: its ribs and backbone are joined to the bony plates, so it can never leave its shell.

Who acts: shell, turtle · What happens: be, join, not leave · To what, where: part, ribs, shell

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 (shell, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turtle	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 turtle	case
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 joined	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 skeleton	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skeleton	nmod:poss
9	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 ribs	punct
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ribs	nmod:poss
12	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 joined	nsubj:pass
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 backbone	cc
14	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ribs	conj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 joined	aux:pass
16	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 plates	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plates	det
19	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plates	amod
20	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 joined	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 leave	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	26 leave	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leave	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 leave	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 leave	advmod
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 joined	conj
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shell	nmod:poss
28	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 part	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a turtle's shell	part	of turtle's skeleton	tree rules
2	join	present · passive		turtle's ribs and backbone	to the bony plates	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to plate=Co-Patient
3	not leave	can	turtle	turtle's shell		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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:6.

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): 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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