Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 17

A tortoise cannot leave its shell, because its ribs and backbone are joined to it as part of its skeleton, and it can feel touch through the shell.

Who acts: tortoise, hide · What happens: not leave, join, feel · To what, where: shell, ribs, hide, touch

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 (tortoise, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shell	nmod:poss
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 joined	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 joined	mark
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ribs	nmod:poss
11	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 joined	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 backbone	cc
13	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ribs	conj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 joined	aux:pass
15	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 leave	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 joined	obl
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 part	case
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joined	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 skeleton	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 skeleton	nmod:poss
22	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 part	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 feel	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feel	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feel	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 feel	aux
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 joined	conj
28	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feel	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 shell	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shell	det
31	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feel	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not leave	can	a tortoise	hide's shell				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
2	join	present · passive		hide's ribs and backbone	hide		as part of hide's skeleton	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient
3	feel	can	hide	touch		the shell		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent touch=Theme through shell=Location

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:17.

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. 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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