--- title: Some do amazing things: sea turtles find their home beach after thir… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Some do amazing things: sea turtles find their home beach after thirty years at sea, and one Australian turtle takes oxygen from water through its bottom. Who acts: sea turtles, one Australian turtle. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Turtles and tortoises, sentence 4 Some do amazing things: sea turtles find their home beach after thirty years at sea, and one Australian turtle takes oxygen from water through its bottom. **Who acts:** sea turtles, one Australian turtle · **What happens:** find, take · **To what, where:** home beach, oxygen, water 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 (sea turtles, one Australian 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:4 # text = Some do amazing things: sea turtles find their home beach after thirty years at sea, and one Australian turtle takes oxygen from water through its bottom. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 20 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | sea turtles | Tortoises's home beach | | | year | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Topic | | 2 | **take** | present | one Australian turtle | oxygen | | water | | through turtle's bottom | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from water=Initial\_Location | 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:4`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/3/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)