Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 10

Geckos can drop their tail to escape a predator; a new tail grows back shorter and fatter, and because the tail stores fat, losing it is a big loss.

Who acts: Geckos, new tail, tail, losing · What happens: drop, escape, grow back, store, lose, be · To what, where: tail, predator, fat, big loss

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 (Geckos, new tail, tail, losing), 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	Geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 escape	mark
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drop	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 predator	det
9	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 grows	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tail	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tail	amod
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grows	nsubj
14	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	parataxis
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 grows	advmod
16	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 grows	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fatter	cc
18	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 shorter	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 loss	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grows	cc
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 stores	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tail	det
23	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stores	nsubj
24	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 grows	conj
25	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stores	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 losing	punct
27	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 loss	csubj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 losing	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 loss	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 loss	det
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 loss	amod
32	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	can	Geckos	geckos's tail		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	escape	to-infinitive	Geckos not said here	a predator		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme predator=Initial_Location
3	grow back	present	a new tail		short property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	store	present	the tail	fat		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
5	lose	gerund		fat		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
6	is a	present	losing	a big loss		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:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:10.

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, R6-punct-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.

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