Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 16

Lizards shed their skin in pieces while snakes usually shed in one long piece, many geckos eat their old skin, and a damp hide helps a gecko shed so it does not lose toes.

Who acts: Lizards, snakes, many geckos, damp hide, hide · What happens: shed, eat, help, not lose · To what, where: skin, pieces, one long piece, old skin, gecko shed, toes

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 (Lizards, snakes, many geckos, damp hide), 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	Lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	nsubj
2	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skin	nmod:poss
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shed	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 pieces	case
6	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 shed	mark
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shed	nsubj
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 shed	advmod
10	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shed	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 piece	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 piece	nummod
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 piece	amod
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shed	punct
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 geckos	amod
17	geckos	gecko	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 eat	nsubj
18	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shed	parataxis
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 skin	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 skin	amod
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eat	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 helps	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 helps	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hide	det
25	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hide	amod
26	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 helps	nsubj
27	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shed	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 shed	det
29	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shed	compound
30	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 helps	obj
31	so	so	ADV	_	35 lose	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lose	nsubj
33	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 lose	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 lose	advmod
35	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 helps	advcl
36	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lose	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shed	past	Lizards	lizards's skin	pieces		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source
2	shed	present	snakes		one long piece	usually property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	eat	present	many geckos	geckos's old skin			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	help	present	a damp hide	a gecko shed			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shed=Beneficiary
5	not lose	present · do-support	hide	toes			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Eventuality

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:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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