--- title: Imagine a beach at night: tiny turtles pop out of the sand and race… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine a beach at night: tiny turtles pop out of the sand and race towards the brightest thing they can see, which is normally the moonlit sea; that is why beach towns switch off their lights in hatching season. Who acts: you, tiny turtles, things, brightest thing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tiny turtles, things, brightest thing), 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:2 # text = Imagine a beach at night: tiny turtles pop out of the sand and race towards the brightest thing they can see, which is normally the moonlit sea; that is why beach towns switch off their lights in hatching season. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 pop pop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 race race VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 normally normally ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 moonlit moonlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 33 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 34 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 switch switch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:obl 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 hatching hatching NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | a beach | | | night | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beach=Theme | | 2 | **pop out** | present | tiny turtles | the sand | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | | 3 | **race** | present | tiny turtles *not said here* | | | the brightest thing | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards thing=Destination | | 4 | **see** | can | things *= thing* | the brightest thing *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** | present | the brightest thing | the moonlit sea | | | | normally *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **switch off** | present | beach towns | things's lights | | | season | | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient | | 7 | **light** | | things *= thing* | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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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