--- title: Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit on top of the head, so a crocodile… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics description: Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit on top of the head, so a crocodile can lie in a river with only those showing, breathing, watching and listening while the rest of it is hidden like a floating log. Who acts: eyes, crocodile. 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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 (eyes, crocodile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:1 # text = Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit on top of the head, so a crocodile can lie in a river with only those showing, breathing, watching and listening while the rest of it is hidden like a floating log. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 029-crocodiles-and-alligators.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 ×3 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 showing showing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 32 while while SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 log log NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | Crocodiles's eyes and ears and nostrils | | | top of the head | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | | 2 | **lie** | can | a crocodile | those | | a river | | with showing | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=Location | | 3 | **breathe** | gerund | a crocodile *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **watch** | gerund | a crocodile *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **listen** | gerund | a crocodile *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hide** | present · passive | | the rest of showing | | | | like a floating log | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:1`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Crocodiles and alligators, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/0/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/)