The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 3

The crocodile lying with its mouth wide open is not waiting to bite; it cannot sweat, so it lets heat out through its mouth, much as a dog pants.

Who acts: crocodile, mouth · What happens: lie, not wait, bite, not sweat, let, heat out · To what, where: mouth

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 (crocodile, mouth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waiting	nsubj
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crocodile	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	8 open	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mouth	nmod:poss
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	nsubj
7	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 open	advmod
8	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lying	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 waiting	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 waiting	advmod
11	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bite	mark
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 waiting	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sweat	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sweat	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sweat	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 sweat	advmod
18	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 waiting	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 heat	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 lets	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lets	nsubj
22	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 waiting	conj
23	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lets	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 heat	compound:prt
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 mouth	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouth	nmod:poss
27	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 much	punct
29	much	much	ADV	_	33 pants	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 pants	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pants	compound
33	pants	pant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 heat	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	the crocodile not said here		with open	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not wait	present · progressive	the crocodile			tree rules
3	bite	to-infinitive	the crocodile not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	not sweat	can	mouth			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	let	present	mouth			tree rules
6	heat out	infinitive	mouth not said here	crocodile's mouth		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	pant	present	mouth not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:3.

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 ×5. 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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