--- title: Turtles bask in the sun to warm up and to make vitamin D for strong… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Turtles bask in the sun to warm up and to make vitamin D for strong shells; pet turtles can carry salmonella germs, so wash your hands after touching one. Who acts: Turtles, pet 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 (Turtles, pet turtles), 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:15 # text = Turtles bask in the sun to warm up and to make vitamin D for strong shells; pet turtles can carry salmonella germs, so wash your hands after touching one. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bask bask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 vitamin vitamin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 D D NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 18 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 22 salmonella salmonella NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 after after SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bask** | present | Turtles | | | the sun | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | Turtles *not said here* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Turtles *not said here* | vitamin D | | | | for strong shells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent d=Product for shell=Asset | | 4 | **carry** | can | pet turtles | salmonella germs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 5 | **wash** | infinitive | Turtles *not said here* | your hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **touch** | gerund | Turtles *not said here* | one | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme | 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:15`. **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: [Turtles and tortoises, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/14/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)