--- title: In the dry season alligators dig gator holes that keep water when ev… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics description: In the dry season alligators dig gator holes that keep water when everything else dries out, and many other animals drink and live there. Who acts: alligators, gator holes, everything, many other animals. A sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Crocodiles and alligators](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/) / 17 # Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 17 In the dry season alligators dig gator holes that keep water when everything else dries out, and many other animals drink and live there. **Who acts:** alligators, gator holes, everything, many other animals · **What happens:** dig, keep, dry out, drink, live · **To what, where:** gator holes, water 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 (alligators, gator holes, everything, many other animals), 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:17 # text = In the dry season alligators dig gator holes that keep water when everything else dries out, and many other animals drink and live there. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dig dig VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 gator gator NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 holes hole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 13 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 14 else else ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | present | alligators | gator holes | | | season | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | present | gator holes | water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **dry out** | present | everything | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | present | many other animals | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **live** | present | many other animals *not said here* | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:17`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Crocodiles and alligators, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/16/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/)