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title: Sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells like Squirt do… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and r… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells like Squirt does, and to a hungry turtle a floating plastic bag looks just like a jellyfish. Who acts: Sea turtles, floating plastic bag. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology cour
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 3

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Sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells like Squirt does, and to a hungry turtle a floating plastic bag looks just like a jellyfish.

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**Who acts:** Sea turtles, floating plastic bag · **What happens:** not pull, float, look · **To what, where:** heads, shells

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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, floating plastic bag), 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:3
# text = Sea turtles cannot pull their heads into their shells like Squirt does, and to a hungry turtle a floating plastic bag looks just like a jellyfish.
# 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
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	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Squirt	squirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
22	plastic	plastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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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 |  | turtles's shells like Squirt |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | a floating plastic bag |  |  |  |  | to a hungry turtle; like a jellyfish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to turtle=Theme |

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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:3`.

**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. **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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