The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 13

Female sea turtles cross oceans to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched, probably finding it partly by sensing Earth's magnetic field, and warmer sand gives more female babies.

Who acts: Female sea turtles, turtles, warmer sand · What happens: cross, lay, hatch, find, sense, give · To what, where: oceans, eggs, beach, ocean, magnetic field, more female babies

This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (Female sea turtles, turtles, warmer sand), 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	Female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turtles	amod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtles	compound
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
4	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lay	mark
7	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cross	advcl
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 hatched	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hatched	nsubj
14	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beach	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 finding	punct
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	17 finding	advmod
17	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cross	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 finding	obj
19	partly	partly	ADV	_	17 finding	advmod
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 sensing	mark
21	sensing	sense	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 finding	advcl
22	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 field	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 Earth	case
24	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 field	amod
25	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sensing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gives	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gives	cc
28	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 sand	amod
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gives	nsubj
30	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	conj
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 babies	amod
32	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 babies	amod
33	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gives	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cross	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	present	Female sea turtles	oceans			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient
2	lay	to-infinitive	Female sea turtles not said here	eggs	the beach		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination
3	hatch	past	turtles = turtle				vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	find	gerund	Female sea turtles not said here	ocean		partly, probably property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	sense	gerund	Female sea turtles not said here	Earth's magnetic field			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus
6	give	present	warmer sand	more female babies			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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:008-the-ocean.lesson:13.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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