Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 11
A sea turtle lays about 100 eggs in the sand at night and never sees her babies; after about two months the hatchlings dig out and head for the brightest horizon, which on a natural beach is the sea.
Who acts: sea turtle, hatchlings, brightest horizon · What happens: lay about, not see, dig out, head, be · To what, where: 100 eggs, sand, babies, sea, natural beach
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 turtle, hatchlings, brightest horizon), 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 | 3 turtle | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turtle | compound |
| 3 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lays | nsubj |
| 4 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 100 | advmod |
| 6 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 eggs | nummod |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lays | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sand | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lays | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lays | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sees | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 sees | advmod |
| 15 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lays | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 babies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sees | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dig | punct |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 months | case |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 two | advmod |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 months | nummod |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dig | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hatchlings | det |
| 24 | hatchlings | hatchling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dig | nsubj |
| 25 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lays | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 dig | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 head | cc |
| 28 | head | head | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dig | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 horizon | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horizon | det |
| 31 | brightest | bright | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 horizon | amod |
| 32 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 head | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sea | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 sea | nsubj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 beach | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 beach | det |
| 37 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beach | amod |
| 38 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sea | obl |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 sea | cop |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sea | det |
| 41 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 horizon | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lays | 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 | lay about | present | a sea turtle | 100 eggs | the sand | night | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination | ||
| 2 | not see | present | a sea turtle not said here | turtle's babies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | dig out | present | the hatchlings | month | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | head | present | the hatchlings not said here | for the brightest horizon | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the brightest horizon | the sea | a natural beach | 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:049-babies.lesson:11.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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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