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title: A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, whic… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics
description: A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, which is one big reason to keep plastic out of the sea. Who acts: floating plastic bag, leatherback. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Turtles and tortoises, sentence 11

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A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, which is one big reason to keep plastic out of the sea.

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**Who acts:** floating plastic bag, leatherback · **What happens:** float, look, be, keep · **To what, where:** one big reason, plastic, sea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» 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 (floating plastic bag, leatherback), 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:11
# text = A floating plastic bag looks like a jellyfish to a leatherback, which is one big reason to keep plastic out of the sea.
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
4	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	leatherback	leatherback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | present | a floating plastic bag |  |  |  |  | like a jellyfish; to a leatherback | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to leatherback=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a leatherback | one big reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a floating plastic bag *not said here* | plastic |  | the sea |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme out sea=Location |

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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.

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**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:11`.

**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/).

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