--- title: Grown-up green sea turtles mostly eat seagrass and seaweed; they are… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-up green sea turtles mostly eat seagrass and seaweed; they are named green after the greenish fat inside their bodies, not their shells, and their grazing keeps seagrass meadows healthy, like mowing a lawn. Who acts: Grown green sea turtles, grazing, seagrass. 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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 (Grown green sea turtles, grazing, seagrass), 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:9 # text = Grown-up green sea turtles mostly eat seagrass and seaweed; they are named green after the greenish fat inside their bodies, not their shells, and their grazing keeps seagrass meadows healthy, like mowing a lawn. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 4 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 seagrass seagrass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 seaweed seaweed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 16 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 greenish greenish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 21 inside inside ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 not not ADV RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 grazing grazing NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 33 seagrass seagrass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 healthy healthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 like like SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 mowing mow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 lawn lawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **eat** | present | Grown green sea turtles | seagrass and seaweed | | | | mostly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seagrass=Patient | | 3 | **name** | present · passive | | seagrass | | | after the greenish fat inside seagrass's bodies and seagrass's shells | green *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | seagrass's grazing | seagrass meadows | | | | healthy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | | 5 | **mow** | gerund | Grown green sea turtles *not said here* | a lawn | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawn=Patient | | 6 | **graze** | | seagrass | | | | | | nom grazing «act 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/8/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)