Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 9

Sea turtles, especially leatherbacks that eat jellyfish, can mistake floating plastic bags for food; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves.

Who acts: leatherbacks, Sea turtles, plastic, turtle · What happens: eat, mistake, float, block, feel, starve · To what, where: jellyfish, floating plastic bags, stomach

This is a sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 (leatherbacks, Sea turtles, plastic, 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	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turtles	compound
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mistake	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 leatherbacks	punct
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	5 leatherbacks	advmod
5	leatherbacks	leatherback	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turtles	appos
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 leatherbacks	acl:relcl
8	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mistake	punct
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mistake	aux
11	mistake	mistake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 bags	amod
13	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bags	amod
14	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mistake	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mistake	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 block	punct
18	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 block	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 block	aux
20	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 mistake	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stomach	det
22	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 block	obj
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 feels	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 turtle	det
25	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feels	nsubj
26	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 block	advcl
27	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feels	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 starves	cc
29	starves	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 feels	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 mistake	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	leatherbacks	jellyfish		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Patient
2	mistake	can	Sea turtles	floating plastic bags	for food	tree rules
3	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	block	can	plastic	the stomach		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer stomach=Theme
5	feel	present	the turtle		full property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	starve	present	the turtle not said here			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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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