--- title: Sea turtles eat jellyfish and can mistake floating plastic bags for… — The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark · tree and pragmatics description: Sea turtles eat jellyfish and can mistake floating plastic bags for them; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves, and tiny microplastics have been found from the deepest trenches to Arctic ice. Who acts: Sea turtles, plastic, turtle. 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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, plastic, turtle), 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:14 # text = Sea turtles eat jellyfish and can mistake floating plastic bags for them; plastic can block the stomach so the turtle feels full and starves, and tiny microplastics have been found from the deepest trenches to Arctic ice. # 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): R1-cc-next ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 mistake mistake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 floating float VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 amod _ _ 9 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 block block VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 stomach stomach NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 so so SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 25 starves starve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 28 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 microplastics microplastic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 36 amod _ _ 36 trenches trench NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 Arctic arctic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Sea turtles | jellyfish | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jellyfish=Patient | | 2 | **mistake** | can | Sea turtles *not said here* | floating plastic bags | | | | for turtles *= turtle* | 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 | | 7 | **find** | present · perfect · passive | | tiny microplastics | | the deepest trenches to Arctic ice | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from trench=Source | 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×3, 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: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/13/) - next →: [The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and t…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/)