Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 11

Most geckos have no moving eyelids and clean their eyes with their tongue, but leopard geckos are unusual geckos with eyelids that can blink.

Who acts: Most geckos, leopard geckos, eyelids · What happens: have, move, clean, be, blink · To what, where: moving eyelids, eyes, unusual geckos

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 (Most geckos, leopard geckos, eyelids), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 geckos	amod
2	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 eyelids	det
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 eyelids	amod
6	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 clean	cc
8	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clean	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 tongue	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clean	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 geckos	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 geckos	cc
16	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 geckos	compound
17	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 geckos	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 geckos	cop
19	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 geckos	amod
20	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eyelids	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 eyelids	case
22	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 geckos	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 blink	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 blink	aux
25	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 eyelids	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most geckos	no moving eyelids but unusual geckos		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
2	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	clean	present	Most geckos not said here	geckos's eyes	with geckos's tongue	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with tongue=Instrument
4	is a	present	leopard geckos	unusual geckos	with eyelids	tree rules
5	blink	can	eyelids			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:11.

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): no change. 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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