The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 15

In crocodiles, alligators and many turtles, the warmth of the nest decides whether the eggs hatch as males or females; in sea turtles, warmer sand gives more females.

Who acts: warmth, eggs, warmer sand · What happens: decide, hatch, give · To what, where: more females, sea turtles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (warmth, eggs, warmer sand), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 crocodiles	case
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 decides	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 alligators	punct
4	alligators	alligator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crocodiles	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 turtles	cc
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turtles	amod
7	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crocodiles	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crocodiles	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 warmth	det
10	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 decides	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 nest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 nest	det
13	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warmth	nmod
14	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	18 hatch	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 eggs	det
17	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hatch	nsubj
18	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 decides	ccomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 males	case
20	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 hatch	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 females	cc
22	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 males	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gives	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 turtles	case
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 turtles	compound
26	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gives	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 turtles	punct
28	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 sand	amod
29	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gives	nsubj
30	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 decides	parataxis
31	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 females	amod
32	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gives	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 decides	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the warmth of the nest			in crocodiles and alligators and many turtles	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hatch	present	the eggs			as males or females	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	give	present	warmer sand	more females	sea turtles		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=Theme

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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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): 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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