--- title: Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out. Who acts: Leatherback turtles, spikes. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea tur…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/) / 13 # Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 13 Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out. **Who acts:** Leatherback turtles, spikes · **What happens:** eat, line, keep, slide, amount · **To what, where:** huge amounts, throats, slippery food, jellyfish 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 (Leatherback turtles, spikes), 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:13 # text = Leatherback turtles eat huge amounts of jellyfish, and their throats are lined with spikes that keep the slippery food from sliding back out. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leatherback leatherback NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 throats throat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 spikes spike NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 slippery slippery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 from from SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 sliding slide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 out out ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **eat** | present | Leatherback turtles | huge amounts of jellyfish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | | 2 | **line** | present · passive | | turtles's throats | | | | with spikes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with spike=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | present | spikes | the slippery food | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **slide** | gerund | spikes *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **amount** | | | jellyfish | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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](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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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