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title: The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest rept… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest reptiles, small enough to curl up on a coin. Who acts: Jaragua dwarf gecko. A sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 12

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The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest reptiles, small enough to curl up on a coin.

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**Who acts:** Jaragua dwarf gecko · **What happens:** be, curl up · **To what, where:** one, coin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (Jaragua dwarf gecko), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:12
# text = The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest reptiles, small enough to curl up on a coin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Jaragua	Jaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	gecko	gecko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Caribbean	Caribbean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	curl	curl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | the Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean | one |  |  |  | of the smallest reptiles | tree rules |
| 2 | **curl up** | to-infinitive | the Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean *not said here* |  |  | a coin |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×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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