--- title: Pet red-eared sliders let go in park ponds can crowd out the local p… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Pet red-eared sliders let go in park ponds can crowd out the local pond animals, so pet turtles must never be released. Who acts: Pet eared sliders. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Turtles and tortoises, sentence 20 Pet red-eared sliders let go in park ponds can crowd out the local pond animals, so pet turtles must never be released. **Who acts:** Pet eared sliders · **What happens:** ear, let, go, crowd out, not release · **To what, where:** Pet eared sliders, park ponds, local pond animals, pet turtles 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 (Pet eared sliders), 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:20 # text = Pet red-eared sliders let go in park ponds can crowd out the local pond animals, so pet turtles must never be released. # 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 ×2 1 Pet Pet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 2 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 eared ear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 sliders slider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 6 let let VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 crowd crowd VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 21 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 released release VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ear** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | participle | | Pet eared sliders *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | Pet eared sliders *not said here* | | | park ponds | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | | 4 | **crowd out** | can | Pet eared sliders | | the local pond animals | | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Destination | | 5 | **not** **release** | must · passive | | pet turtles | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source | 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:20`. **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 ×2. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/19/) - next →: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)