--- title: A sea turtle lays about 100 eggs in the sand at night and never sees… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A sea turtle lays about 100 eggs in the sand at night and never sees her babies; after about two months the hatchlings dig out and head for the brightest horizon, which on a natural beach is the sea. Who acts: sea turtle, hatchlings, brightest horizon. 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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 turtle, hatchlings, brightest horizon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:11 # text = A sea turtle lays about 100 eggs in the sand at night and never sees her babies; after about two months the hatchlings dig out and head for the brightest horizon, which on a natural beach is the sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 049-babies.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hatchlings hatchling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 head head VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 brightest bright ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 horizon horizon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 acl:relcl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **lay about** | present | a sea turtle | 100 eggs | | the sand | night | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination | | 2 | **not** **see** | present | a sea turtle *not said here* | turtle's babies | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | | 3 | **dig out** | present | the hatchlings | | | | month | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **head** | present | the hatchlings *not said here* | | | | | for the brightest horizon | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the brightest horizon | the sea | | a natural beach | | | tree rules | 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:049-babies.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-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: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/10/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)