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title: So you find a lizard that swims in the sea and eats seaweed, a cormo… — The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Dar… · tree and pragmatics
description: So you find a lizard that swims in the sea and eats seaweed, a cormorant that cannot fly, penguins on the equator and tortoises whose shells are shaped to stretch up for cactus. Who acts: you, lizard, cormorant. A sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches 
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# The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 1

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So you find a lizard that swims in the sea and eats seaweed, a cormorant that cannot fly, penguins on the equator and tortoises whose shells are shaped to stretch up for cactus.

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**Who acts:** you, lizard, cormorant · **What happens:** find, swim, eat, not fly, shape, stretch up · **To what, where:** lizard, sea, seaweed, shells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (you, lizard, cormorant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:1
# text = So you find a lizard that swims in the sea and eats seaweed, a cormorant that cannot fly, penguins on the equator and tortoises whose shells are shaped to stretch up for cactus.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.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	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cormorant	cormorant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:cop
31	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	stretch	stretch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:xcomp
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **find** | present | you | a lizard and penguins on the equator and tortoises |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Topic |
| 2 | **swim** | present | a lizard and penguins on the equator and tortoises |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **eat** | present | a lizard and penguins on the equator and tortoises *not said here* | seaweed |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **fly** | can | a cormorant |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **shape** | present · passive |  | shells |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **stretch up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for cactus | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 ×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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