Litter and caring for nature, sentence 19

A girl in Florida dropped a plastic bag on the beach; a sea turtle later swallowed one like it, thinking it was a jellyfish, and died.

Who acts: girl, sea turtle, turtle · What happens: drop, swallow, think, be, die · To what, where: plastic bag, beach, one, jellyfish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» of the everyday 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 (girl, sea turtle, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bag	det
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bag	amod
8	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	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	5 dropped	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 swallowed	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 turtle	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 turtle	compound
15	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swallowed	nsubj
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 swallowed	advmod
17	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dropped	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 swallowed	obj
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 thinking	punct
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 swallowed	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 jellyfish	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 jellyfish	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 jellyfish	det
26	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thinking	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 died	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 died	cc
29	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dropped	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drop	past	a girl in Florida	a plastic bag	the beach		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on beach=Destination
2	swallow	past	a sea turtle	one		like beach; late property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	think speech: other	gerund	a sea turtle not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	turtle	a jellyfish			tree rules
5	die	past	a girl in Florida not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:19.

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 ×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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