--- title: Sea turtles are the great wanderers: a baby crawls from its sand nes… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles are the great wanderers: a baby crawls from its sand nest to the sea at night, swims thousands of kilometres for years, and many females come back to lay eggs on the very beach where they hatched. Who acts: Sea turtles, baby, many females, females. 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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 (Sea turtles, baby, many females, females), 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:2 # text = Sea turtles are the great wanderers: a baby crawls from its sand nest to the sea at night, swims thousands of kilometres for years, and many females come back to lay eggs on the very beach where they hatched. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wanderers wanderer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 11 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:xcomp 35 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 very very ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 39 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Sea turtles | the great wanderers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **crawl** | present | a baby | | | baby's sand nest | night | to the sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from nest=Trajectory | | 3 | **swim** | present | a baby *not said here* | thousands of kilometres | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come back** | present | many females | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lay** | to-infinitive | many females *not said here* | eggs | | the very beach | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination | | 6 | **hatch** | past | females *= female* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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