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title: Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, an… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics
description: Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way. Who acts: Warmer sand, bright beach lights. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Turtles and tortoises, sentence 13

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Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.

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**Who acts:** Warmer sand, bright beach lights · **What happens:** give, lead · **To what, where:** more girl hatchlings, hatchlings

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» 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 (Warmer sand, bright beach lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:031-turtles-and-tortoises.lesson:13
# text = Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 031-turtles-and-tortoises.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	Warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
15	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
19	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Warmer sand | more girl hatchlings and cooler sand and more boys |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | can | bright beach lights | hatchlings |  |  |  | the wrong way *obl:unmarked* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=Theme |

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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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**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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