--- title: In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock and chases Capta… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics description: In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock and chases Captain Hook for more; real crocodiles can't chew at all, so they spin over and over in the death roll to twist off chunks and swallow them whole. Who acts: crocodile, real crocodiles, Crocodiles. A sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 3 In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock and chases Captain Hook for more; real crocodiles can't chew at all, so they spin over and over in the death roll to twist off chunks and swallow them whole. **Who acts:** crocodile, real crocodiles, Crocodiles · **What happens:** swallow, chase, not chew, spin, twist off · **To what, where:** ticking clock, Peter, Captain Hook, death roll, chunks, Crocodiles 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 (crocodile, real crocodiles, Crocodiles), 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:3 # text = In Peter Pan the crocodile swallows a ticking clock and chases Captain Hook for more; real crocodiles can't chew at all, so they spin over and over in the death roll to twist off chunks and swallow them whole. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 Pan Pan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 ticking ticking NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 Captain Captain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Hook hook NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 chew chew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 spin spin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 28 over over ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=28:cc 30 over over ADV RB _ 28 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 twist twist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:acl 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 chunks chunk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 43 . . 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 | **swallow** | present | the crocodile | a ticking clock | | Peter | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | | 2 | **chase** | present | the crocodile *not said here* | Captain Hook | | | | for more | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Theme | | 3 | **not** **chew** | can | real crocodiles | | | | | at all | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at all=Patient | | 4 | **spin** | present | Crocodiles *= crocodile* | | | the death roll | | over *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in roll=Trajectory | | 5 | **twist off** | to-infinitive | Crocodiles *= crocodile* *not said here* | chunks | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chunk=Theme | | 6 | **swallow** | infinitive | Crocodiles *= crocodile* *not said here* | Crocodiles *= crocodile* | | | | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, 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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/2/) - next →: [Crocodiles and alligators, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/)