--- title: A mother sea turtle buries about 100 eggs in the sand; the babies ha… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: A mother sea turtle buries about 100 eggs in the sand; the babies hatch weeks later, usually dig out at night and run towards the brighter horizon over the sea. Who acts: mother sea turtle, babies. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/12/) [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/) / [Turtles and tortoises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/) / 12 # Turtles and tortoises, sentence 12 A mother sea turtle buries about 100 eggs in the sand; the babies hatch weeks later, usually dig out at night and run towards the brighter horizon over the sea. **Who acts:** mother sea turtle, babies · **What happens:** bury, hatch, dig out, run · **To what, where:** 100 eggs, sand, brighter horizon 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 (mother sea turtle, babies), 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:12 # text = A mother sea turtle buries about 100 eggs in the sand; the babies hatch weeks later, usually dig out at night and run towards the brighter horizon over 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 buries bury VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked 17 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 out out ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 towards towards ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 horizon horizon NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 over over ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** | present | a mother sea turtle | 100 eggs | | the sand | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **hatch** | present | the babies | | | | | late *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **dig out** | present | the babies *not said here* | | | | night | usually *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run** | present | the babies *not said here* | | | the brighter horizon over the sea | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards horizon=Destination | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Turtles and tortoises, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/11/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)