--- title: Cartoon turtles step out of their shells and walk about in pants, bu… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon turtles step out of their shells and walk about in pants, but a real turtle never could: without its shell it would have no ribs and no spine. Who acts: Cartoon turtles, 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 (Cartoon turtles, 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:5 # text = Cartoon turtles step out of their shells and walk about in pants, but a real turtle never could: without its shell it would have no ribs and no spine. # 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 ×4 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 step step VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 pants pants NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nsubj 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 19 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 without without ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 28 det _ _ 28 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 31 det _ _ 31 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step out** | present | Cartoon turtles | Tortoises's shells | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location shell=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | present | Cartoon turtles *not said here* | | | pants | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pants=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | would | turtle | no ribs and no spine | | | | without turtle's shell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=Patient | 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:5`. **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 ×4. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/4/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)