--- title: Sea turtles really do seem to cry: glands near their eyes push out t… — Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lob… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles really do seem to cry: glands near their eyes push out the extra salt from the seawater they swallow, so salty «tears» run down their faces, but not from sadness. Who acts: Sea turtles, glands, salty tears. 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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 (Sea turtles, glands, salty tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:12 # text = Sea turtles really do seem to cry: glands near their eyes push out the extra salt from the seawater they swallow, so salty «tears» run down their faces, but not from sadness. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.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): no change 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 9 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 seawater seawater NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 swallow swallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 27 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | present · do-support | Sea turtles | | | sadness | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Sea turtles *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **push out** | present | glands near glands's eyes | the extra salt | | the seawater | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent salt=Theme from seawater=Trajectory | | 4 | **swallow** | present | glands *= gland* | the seawater *not said here* | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient | | 5 | **run down** | infinitive | salty tears | tears's faces | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location face=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. 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