Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 15

A crested gecko has five toes on each foot with wide pads covered in millions of tiny hairs that grip glass very closely, so it can walk up walls and upside down; leopard geckos have no sticky pads.

Who acts: crested gecko, tiny hairs, glass, leopard geckos · What happens: have, cover, grip, walk · To what, where: five toes, foot, wide pads, glass, walls, sticky pads

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 (crested gecko, tiny hairs, glass, leopard geckos), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gecko	det
2	crested	crest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gecko	amod
3	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 toes	nummod
6	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toes	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 pads	case
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pads	amod
12	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 foot	nmod
13	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pads	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 millions	case
15	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 covered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 hairs	case
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hairs	amod
18	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 millions	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grip	nsubj
20	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 hairs	acl:relcl
21	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grip	obj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 closely	advmod
23	closely	closely	ADV	_	20 grip	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 walk	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	_	28 walk	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 walk	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 walk	aux
28	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 grip	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	30 walls	case
30	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 walk	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 upside	cc
32	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 walls	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	28 walk	advmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 have	punct
35	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 geckos	compound
36	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	nsubj
37	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 pads	det
39	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pads	amod
40	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 have	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a crested gecko	five toes	each foot with wide pads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	cover	participle		wide pads not said here		in millions of tiny hairs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in million=Theme
3	grip	present	tiny hairs	glass		closely property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Experiencer
4	walk	can	glass		walls and upside	down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up wall=Trajectory
5	have	present	leopard geckos	no sticky pads			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Patient

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:15.

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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