Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 12

Pet tortoises often live 50 years and some much longer, and Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena, is reported to be around 190 years old.

Who acts: Pet tortoises · What happens: live, report, be · To what, where: Jonathan

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 (Pet tortoises), 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	Pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tortoises	compound
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 some	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 live	conj
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 longer	advmod
10	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 some	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reported	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reported	cc
13	Jonathan	Jonathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 reported	nsubj:pass
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tortoise	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tortoise	det
16	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tortoise	amod
17	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Jonathan	appos
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 Helena	case
19	St	St	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Helena	nmod:desc
20	Helena	Helena	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tortoise	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Jonathan	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reported	aux:pass
23	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 live	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	29 old	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 old	cop
26	around	around	ADV	_	27 190	advmod
27	190	190	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 years	nummod
28	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 old	obl:unmarked
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 reported	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Pet tortoises		year	often property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	report	present · passive		Jonathan			vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	to-infinitive			year	old property	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:12.

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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