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title: The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, with big male… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics
description: The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, with big males over 6 metres long, and it can travel by sea between islands. Who acts: saltwater crocodile, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 13

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The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, with big males over 6 metres long, and it can travel by sea between islands.

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**Who acts:** saltwater crocodile, animal · **What happens:** be, travel · **To what, where:** largest living reptile

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» 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 (saltwater crocodile, animal), 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:13
# text = The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, with big males over 6 metres long, and it can travel by sea between islands.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	saltwater	saltwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the saltwater crocodile | the largest living reptile |  |  |  | with big males | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | can | animal |  |  |  |  | by sea; between islands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Trajectory |

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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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**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:13`.

**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, R7-rel-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.

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

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