Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 13

Tortoises from cooler places slow right down and sleep through winter, and a vet checks them first because a sick or thin tortoise can die during it.

Who acts: Tortoises, vet, sick tortoise · What happens: slow, sleep, check, die · To what, where: Tortoises

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 (Tortoises, vet, sick tortoise), 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	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 places	case
3	cooler	cooler	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 places	amod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tortoises	nmod
5	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	7 down	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleep	cc
9	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	conj
10	through	through	ADP	_	11 winter	case
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sleep	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 checks	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 checks	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vet	det
15	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 checks	nsubj
16	checks	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sleep	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 checks	obj
18	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 checks	advmod
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 die	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tortoise	det
21	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tortoise	amod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 thin	cc
23	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sick	conj
24	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 die	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 die	aux
26	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 checks	advcl
27	during	during	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 die	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Tortoises from cooler places			down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	present	Tortoises from cooler places not said here		winter		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	check	present	a vet	Tortoises = tortoise		first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	die	can	a sick tortoise		during vet		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, 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:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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