--- title: To a turtle, a plastic bag drifting in the water can look just like… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: To a turtle, a plastic bag drifting in the water can look just like a jellyfish, which is one reason rubbish in the sea is so dangerous. Who acts: plastic bag, jellyfish. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» of the biology course of Mova --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 3 To a turtle, a plastic bag drifting in the water can look just like a jellyfish, which is one reason rubbish in the sea is so dangerous. **Who acts:** plastic bag, jellyfish · **What happens:** drift, look, be · **To what, where:** water, reason rubbish, sea 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 (plastic bag, jellyfish), 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:3 # text = To a turtle, a plastic bag drifting in the water can look just like a jellyfish, which is one reason rubbish in the sea is so dangerous. # 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 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:amod 7 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 drifting drift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drift** | gerund | a plastic bag *not said here* | | | the water | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 2 | **look** | can | a plastic bag | | | | | to a turtle; like a jellyfish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to turtle=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a jellyfish | reason rubbish | | the sea | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | a plastic bag *not said here* | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | 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: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): 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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