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title: Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, b… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside. Who acts: Sea turtles, streamlined swimming shells. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology course of Mova
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 11

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Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.

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**Who acts:** Sea turtles, streamlined swimming shells · **What happens:** not pull, have · **To what, where:** heads, shells, room

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 (Sea turtles, streamlined swimming shells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:11
# text = Sea turtles cannot pull their heads or flippers into their shells, because their streamlined swimming shells have no room inside.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	streamlined	streamline	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	swimming	swimming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pull** | can | Sea turtles | turtles's heads or flippers |  | turtles's shells |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | turtles's streamlined swimming shells | no room |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:11`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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