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title: Eggs in incubators are safe from predators, and in some reptiles, su… — Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eggs in incubators are safe from predators, and in some reptiles, such as tortoises, the warmth of the egg decides whether the baby is male or female. Who acts: Eggs, warmth, baby. A sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» of the biology course of Mov
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# Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos, sentence 16

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Eggs in incubators are safe from predators, and in some reptiles, such as tortoises, the warmth of the egg decides whether the baby is male or female.

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**Who acts:** Eggs, warmth, baby · **What happens:** be, decide · **To what, where:** predators, reptiles · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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 (Eggs, warmth, baby), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.lesson:16
# text = Eggs in incubators are safe from predators, and in some reptiles, such as tortoises, the warmth of the egg decides whether the baby is male or female.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 113-breeding-programmes-for-rare-animals.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	incubators	incubator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	16	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:ccomp|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Eggs in incubators |  |  | predators |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **decide** | present | the warmth of the egg |  |  | some reptiles such tortoises |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the baby |  |  |  |  | male *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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