--- title: Alligators bellow so deeply that the water on their backs dances, an… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics description: Alligators bellow so deeply that the water on their backs dances, and babies call from inside their eggs when ready to hatch. Who acts: Alligators, water, babies. 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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 (Alligators, water, babies), 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:16 # text = Alligators bellow so deeply that the water on their backs dances, and babies call from inside their eggs when ready to hatch. # 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 Alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bellow bellow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 4 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 dances dance VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 inside inside ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hatch hatch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bellow** | present | Alligators | | | | | deeply *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **dance** | present | the water on alligators's backs | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | present | babies | | | alligators's eggs | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from egg=Source | | 4 | **hatch** | to-infinitive | babies *not said here* | | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | 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:16`. **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, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/15/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/)