--- title: A girl in Florida dropped a plastic bag on the beach; a sea turtle l… — Litter and caring for nature · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Florida dropped a plastic bag on the beach; a sea turtle later swallowed one like it, thinking it was a jellyfish, and died. Who acts: girl, sea turtle, 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 (girl, sea turtle, turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:19 # text = A girl in Florida dropped a plastic bag on the beach; a sea turtle later swallowed one like it, thinking it was a jellyfish, and died. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 plastic plastic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 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 5 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 17 advmod _ _ 17 swallowed swallow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | past | a girl in Florida | a plastic bag | | the beach | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on beach=Destination | | 2 | **swallow** | past | a sea turtle | one | | | | like beach; late *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | a sea turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | turtle | a jellyfish | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **die** | past | a girl in Florida *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:everyday:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:19`. **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 ×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: [Litter and caring for nature, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/18/) - next →: [Litter and caring for nature, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/239-litter-and-caring-for-nature/)