--- title: Sea turtles, especially leatherbacks that eat jellyfish, can mistake… — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles, especially leatherbacks that eat jellyfish, can mistake floating plastic bags for food; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves. Who acts: leatherbacks, Sea turtles, plastic, turtle. A sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/9/) [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/) / [Endangered animals and extinction](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/) / 9 # Endangered animals and extinction, sentence 9 Sea turtles, especially leatherbacks that eat jellyfish, can mistake floating plastic bags for food; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves. **Who acts:** leatherbacks, Sea turtles, plastic, turtle · **What happens:** eat, mistake, float, block, feel, starve · **To what, where:** jellyfish, floating plastic bags, stomach This is a sentence of the lesson «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 (leatherbacks, Sea turtles, plastic, turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.lesson:9 # text = Sea turtles, especially leatherbacks that eat jellyfish, can mistake floating plastic bags for food; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 especially especially ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 leatherbacks leatherback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 mistake mistake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 starves starve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | leatherbacks | jellyfish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Patient | | 2 | **mistake** | can | Sea turtles | floating plastic bags | | | | for food | tree rules | | 3 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **block** | can | plastic | the stomach | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer stomach=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | present | the turtle | | | | | full *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **starve** | present | the turtle *not said here* | | | | | | 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:077-endangered-animals-and-extinction.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Endangered animals and extinction, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/8/) - next →: [Endangered animals and extinction, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/)