--- title: Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, an… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, and this helps corals have more space to grow. Who acts: Hawksbill turtles, many other animals, this, corals. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» of the biology course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/14/) [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/) / [Reef giants and wanderers: whale shark…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/) / 14 # Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 14 Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, and this helps corals have more space to grow. **Who acts:** Hawksbill turtles, many other animals, this, corals · **What happens:** eat, not eat, help, have, grow · **To what, where:** sponges, more space This is a sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 (Hawksbill turtles, many other animals, this, corals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:14 # text = Hawksbill turtles eat sponges that many other animals cannot eat, and this helps corals have more space to grow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hawksbill hawksbill 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 sponges sponge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obj _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 15 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 corals coral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 . . 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 | Hawksbill turtles | sponges | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=Patient | | 2 | **not** **eat** | can | many other animals | sponges | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 3 | **help** | present | this | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **have** | infinitive | corals | more space | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | corals *not said here* | more space *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:14`. **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): 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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