--- title: Sea turtles sometimes eat plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas,… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles sometimes eat plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish; leatherback turtles mostly eat jellyfish and have spines in their throats to hold them. Who acts: Sea turtles, leatherback turtles, spines. A sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 9 Sea turtles sometimes eat plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish; leatherback turtles mostly eat jellyfish and have spines in their throats to hold them. **Who acts:** Sea turtles, leatherback turtles, spines · **What happens:** eat, mistake, have, hold · **To what, where:** plastic bags, turtles, jellyfish, spines, throats 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 (Sea turtles, leatherback turtles, spines), 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:9 # text = Sea turtles sometimes eat plastic bags, mistaking them for jellyfish; leatherback turtles mostly eat jellyfish and have spines in their throats to hold them. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 mistaking mistake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 leatherback leatherback NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 throats throat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **eat** | present | Sea turtles | plastic bags | | | | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient | | 2 | **mistake** | gerund | Sea turtles *not said here* | turtles *= turtle* | | | | for jellyfish | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present | leatherback turtles | jellyfish | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | leatherback turtles *not said here* | spines | | turtles's throats | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | spines *not said here* | turtles *= turtle* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-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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