--- title: An alligator floats with only its eyes and nostrils above the water,… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: An alligator floats with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, because they sit on top of its head; the Florida Everglades is the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side. Who acts: alligator, flytraps, Florida Everglades, alligators. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alligator, flytraps, Florida Everglades, alligators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:11 # text = An alligator floats with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, because they sit on top of its head; the Florida Everglades is the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 above above ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Everglades Everglades PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 31 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 fixed _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **float** | present | a alligator | | | the water | | with alligator's eyes and nostrils | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above water=Trajectory | | 2 | **sit** | present | flytraps *= flytrap* | | | top of alligator's head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Florida Everglades | the only place | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | present | alligators and crocodiles | side | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:11`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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