--- title: The satanic leaf-tailed gecko has a body and tail that look like a d… — Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenr… · tree and pragmatics description: The satanic leaf-tailed gecko has a body and tail that look like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges; it has no eyelids and licks its eyes clean. Who acts: satanic tailed gecko, body, gecko. A sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin pre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed ge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth/) / 7 # Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 7 The satanic leaf-tailed gecko has a body and tail that look like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges; it has no eyelids and licks its eyes clean. **Who acts:** satanic tailed gecko, body, gecko · **What happens:** tail, have, look, curl, nibble, lick · **To what, where:** body, eyelids, eyes This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (satanic tailed gecko, body, gecko), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:7 # text = The satanic leaf-tailed gecko has a body and tail that look like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges; it has no eyelids and licks its eyes clean. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 satanic satanic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 3 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 tailed tail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 gecko gecko NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:acl 18 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 nibbled nibble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 licks lick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tail** | participle | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | the satanic tailed gecko | a body and tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 3 | **look** | present | a body and tail | | | | | like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **curl** | participle | | | | | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **nibble** | participle | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | gecko | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 7 | **lick** | present | gecko *not said here* | leaf's eyes | | | | clean *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | 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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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