Turtles and tortoises, sentence 9
Grown-up green sea turtles mostly eat seagrass and seaweed; they are named green after the greenish fat inside their bodies, not their shells, and their grazing keeps seagrass meadows healthy, like mowing a lawn.
Who acts: Grown green sea turtles, grazing, seagrass · What happens: grow up, eat, name, keep, mow, graze · To what, where: seagrass, seagrass meadows, lawn
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 (Grown green sea turtles, grazing, seagrass), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 turtles | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 up | punct |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Grown | compound:prt |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 turtles | amod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turtles | compound |
| 6 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 8 eat | advmod |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | seagrass | seagrass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seaweed | cc |
| 11 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seagrass | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 named | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 named | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 named | aux:pass |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 eat | parataxis |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 named | xcomp |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 fat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fat | det |
| 19 | greenish | greenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fat | amod |
| 20 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 named | obl |
| 21 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 23 bodies | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fat | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shells | punct |
| 25 | not | not | ADV | Polarity=Neg | 27 shells | advmod |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shells | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bodies | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 keeps | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 keeps | cc |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 grazing | nmod:poss |
| 31 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 keeps | nsubj |
| 32 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | conj |
| 33 | seagrass | seagrass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meadows | compound |
| 34 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 keeps | obj |
| 35 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 keeps | xcomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 mowing | punct |
| 37 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 38 mowing | mark |
| 38 | mowing | mow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 eat | advcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 lawn | det |
| 40 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 mowing | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eat | 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 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | eat | present | Grown green sea turtles | seagrass and seaweed | mostly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seagrass=Patient | |||
| 3 | name | present · passive | seagrass | after the greenish fat inside seagrass's bodies and seagrass's shells | green property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | present | seagrass's grazing | seagrass meadows | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | |||
| 5 | mow | gerund | Grown green sea turtles not said here | a lawn | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient | ||||
| 6 | graze | seagrass | nom grazing «act transitive»: 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:9.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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