--- title: Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the se… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female. Who acts: turtle babies, warmer sand. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 7 Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female. **Who acts:** turtle babies, warmer sand · **What happens:** hatch, bury, head, make · **To what, where:** eggs, sand, more 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 (turtle babies, warmer sand), 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:7 # text = Sea turtle babies hatch from eggs buried in sand and head for the sea, and warmer sand makes more of the babies female. # 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): no change 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 head head VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 compound _ _ 24 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hatch** | present | turtle babies | | | | | from eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=Patient | | 2 | **bury** | participle | | eggs *not said here* | | sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | | 3 | **head** | present | turtle babies *not said here* | | | | | for the sea | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | warmer sand | more | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product | 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: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): no change. **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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