--- title: Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where the… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature. Who acts: Many female sea turtles, eggs, turtle. 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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 (Many female sea turtles, eggs, turtle), 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:14 # text = Many female sea turtles come back to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched; scientists think they remember its magnetic signature. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 9 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 signature signature NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | Many female sea turtles *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Many female sea turtles *not said here* | eggs | | the beach | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination | | 3 | **hatch** | past | eggs *= egg* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Many female sea turtles | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | present | eggs *= egg* | turtle's magnetic signature | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent signature=Theme | | 6 | **sign** | | turtle | | | | | | nom signature «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:14`. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/13/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)