--- title: Female sea turtles cross oceans to lay eggs on the beach where they… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: Female sea turtles cross oceans to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched, probably finding it partly by sensing Earth's magnetic field, and warmer sand gives more female babies. Who acts: Female sea turtles, turtles, warmer sand. 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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 (Female sea turtles, turtles, warmer sand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:13 # text = Female sea turtles cross oceans to lay eggs on the beach where they hatched, probably finding it partly by sensing Earth's magnetic field, and warmer sand gives more female babies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 008-the-ocean.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 probably probably ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 partly partly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 by by SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sensing sense VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 magnetic magnetic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:compound 30 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 32 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | present | Female sea turtles | oceans | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient | | 2 | **lay** | to-infinitive | Female sea turtles *not said here* | eggs | | the beach | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on beach=Destination | | 3 | **hatch** | past | turtles *= turtle* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **find** | gerund | Female sea turtles *not said here* | ocean | | | | partly, probably *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **sense** | gerund | Female sea turtles *not said here* | Earth's magnetic field | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus | | 6 | **give** | present | warmer sand | more female babies | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:008-the-ocean.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/12/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)