Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 4

Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper.

Who acts: you, crested gecko, calcium, tongue · What happens: picture, lick, have, move, be · To what, where: crested gecko, own eyeball, moving eyelids, windscreen wiper

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 (you, crested gecko, calcium, tongue), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gecko	det
3	crested	crested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gecko	amod
4	gecko	gecko	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
5	licking	lick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gecko	acl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyeball	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyeball	amod
8	eyeball	eyeball	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 licking	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Picture	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 eyelids	det
13	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 eyelids	amod
14	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 has	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wiper	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	22 wiper	advmod
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tongue	nmod:poss
18	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wiper	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wiper	cop
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wiper	nmod:poss
21	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wiper	compound
22	wiper	wiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a crested gecko	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gecko=Theme
2	lick	gerund	a crested gecko not said here	calcium's own eyeball	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eyeball=Source
3	have	present	calcium	no moving eyelids	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
4	move	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	calcium's tongue	calcium's windscreen wiper	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:4.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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