Turtles and tortoises, sentence 7

Tortoises are turtles that live only on land; they have domed shells and stumpy legs, while 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, domed shells, 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	3 turtles	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turtles	cop
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turtles	acl:relcl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 land	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 domed	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	conj
12	domed	dome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shells	amod
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 legs	cc
15	stumpy	stumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legs	amod
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shells	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 have	mark
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 turtles	compound
20	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	nsubj
21	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	advcl
22	flatter	flat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 shells	amod
23	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 have	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 feet	cc
25	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 feet	amod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shells	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 flippers	cc
28	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 feet	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turtles	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Tortoises	turtles		tree rules
2	live	present	turtles		land	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
3	have	present	Tortoises = tortoise	domed shells and stumpy legs		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
4	have	present	water turtles	flatter shells and webbed feet or flippers		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
5	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:7.

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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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