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description: Green sea turtles probably live 80 years or more, but 150 years is more than scientists know of, and they may not have babies until they are 20 to 40 years old. Who acts: Green sea turtles, 150 years, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures
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# Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 7

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Green sea turtles probably live 80 years or more, but 150 years is more than scientists know of, and they may not have babies until they are 20 to 40 years old.

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**Who acts:** Green sea turtles, 150 years, scientists · **What happens:** live, be, know, not have · **To what, where:** babies

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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 (Green sea turtles, 150 years, scientists), 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:7
# text = Green sea turtles probably live 80 years or more, but 150 years is more than scientists know of, and they may not have babies until they are 20 to 40 years old.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
16	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj
26	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
30	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nmod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Green sea turtles |  |  |  | year | probably *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | 150 years |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | scientists |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **have** | may | scientists *= scientist* | babies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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.

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

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