Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 12

In sea turtles and crocodiles the warmth of the nest decides whether babies become male or female, and bright lights on beaches can lead turtle hatchlings the wrong way.

Who acts: warmth, babies, bright lights · What happens: decide, become, lead · To what, where: sea turtles, turtle hatchlings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (warmth, babies, bright lights), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 turtles	case
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtles	compound
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 decides	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crocodiles	cc
5	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turtles	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 warmth	det
7	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 decides	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 nest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warmth	nmod
11	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	14 become	mark
13	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 become	nsubj
14	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 decides	ccomp
15	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 become	xcomp
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 female	cc
17	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 male	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lead	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lead	cc
20	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lights	amod
21	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lead	nsubj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 beaches	case
23	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lights	nmod
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 lead	aux
25	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 decides	conj
26	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hatchlings	compound
27	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lead	obj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 way	det
29	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lead	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 decides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the warmth of the nest		sea turtles and crocodiles		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become	present	babies			male property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	lead	can	bright lights on beaches	turtle hatchlings		the wrong way obl:unmarked	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=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:049-babies.lesson:12.

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): no change. 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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