--- title: Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish and swal… — What a child can do for nature · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish and swallow them; litter picks on beaches should be done with gloves and with adults. Who acts: Sea turtles. 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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.lesson:9 # text = Sea turtles can mistake floating plastic bags for jellyfish and swallow them; litter picks on beaches should be done with gloves and with adults. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 mistake mistake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 6 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 picks pick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **mistake** | can | Sea turtles | floating plastic bags | | | | for jellyfish | tree rules | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swallow** | infinitive | Sea turtles *not said here* | bags *= bag* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 4 | **do** | should · passive | | litter picks on beaches | | | | with gloves and adults | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [What a child can do for nature, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/8/) - next →: [What a child can do for nature, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/285-what-a-child-can-do-for-nature/)