Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 16

Eggs in incubators are safe from predators, and in some reptiles, such as tortoises, the warmth of the egg decides whether the baby is male or female.

Who acts: Eggs, warmth, baby · What happens: be, decide · To what, where: predators, reptiles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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 (Eggs, warmth, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safe	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 incubators	case
3	incubators	incubator	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eggs	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	cop
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 predators	case
7	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 safe	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 decides	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 decides	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 reptiles	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 reptiles	det
12	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 decides	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tortoises	punct
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 tortoises	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reptiles	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 reptiles	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 warmth	det
19	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 decides	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 egg	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 egg	det
22	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 warmth	nmod
23	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 safe	conj
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	28 male	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 baby	det
26	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 male	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 male	cop
28	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 decides	ccomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 female	cc
30	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 male	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 safe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Eggs in incubators	predators	safe property	tree rules
2	decide	present	the warmth of the egg	some reptiles such tortoises		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the baby		male property	tree rules
4	be		the baby 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, 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:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:16.

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, 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.

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