--- title: So when a box turtle in the garden pulls in its head and legs and sh… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: So when a box turtle in the garden pulls in its head and legs and shuts the hinge underneath, it is hiding inside its own ribs, like a house that is also a shield. Who acts: box turtle, turtle, house. 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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 (box turtle, turtle, house), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:031-turtles-and-tortoises.lesson:1 # text = So when a box turtle in the garden pulls in its head and legs and shuts the hinge underneath, it is hiding inside its own ribs, like a house that is also a shield. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 031-turtles-and-tortoises.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 So so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hinge hinge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 24 inside inside ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 also also ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 acl:relcl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull in** | present | a box turtle in the garden | turtle's head and legs | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shut** | present | a box turtle in the garden *not said here* | the hinge | | | | underneath *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hinge=Patient | | 3 | **hide** | present · progressive | turtle | | | turtle's own ribs | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside rib=Location | | 4 | **is a** | present | a house | a shield | | | | | 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:031-turtles-and-tortoises.lesson:1`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Turtles and tortoises, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/0/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)