Classifying unusual animals, sentence 16
Turtles are reptiles that lay their eggs on land, even if they live in the sea.
Who acts: Turtles, reptiles · What happens: be, lay, live · To what, where: reptiles, eggs, land, sea
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 (Turtles, reptiles), 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 | Turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reptiles | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reptiles | cop |
| 3 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reptiles | acl:relcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 live | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reptiles | 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 | is a | present | Turtles | reptiles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | reptiles | reptiles's eggs | land | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on land=Destination | |||
| 3 | live a condition, not said to happen | present | Turtles = turtle | the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.lesson:16.
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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