Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 7
Reptiles cannot make their own body heat, so a tank needs a warm end and a cool end, and a cold reptile cannot digest its food properly.
Who acts: Reptiles, tank, cold reptile · What happens: not make, need, not digest, heat · To what, where: own body heat, warm end, food
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 (Reptiles, tank, cold reptile), 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heat | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heat | amod |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | compound |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 needs | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 needs | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tank | det |
| 12 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | nsubj |
| 13 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 end | det |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 end | amod |
| 16 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 needs | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 end | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 19 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 end | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 digest | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 digest | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 reptile | det |
| 24 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 reptile | amod |
| 25 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 digest | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 digest | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 digest | advmod |
| 28 | digest | digest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 needs | conj |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 food | nmod:poss |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 digest | obj |
| 31 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 28 digest | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | Reptiles | reptiles's own body heat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product | ||||
| 2 | need | present | a tank | a warm end and a cool end | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot end=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not digest | can | a cold reptile | tank's food | properly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | heat | reptiles = reptile | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:7.
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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