--- title: The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped fla… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics description: The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut. Who acts: alligator. A sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/16/) [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/) / [Turtles and tortoises](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/) / 16 # Turtles and tortoises, sentence 16 The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut. **Who acts:** alligator · **What happens:** snap, lure, fish, shape · **To what, where:** jaws 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 (alligator), 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:16 # text = The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 lures lure VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 6 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 10 worm worm NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ _ 12 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 flap flap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 19 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 shut shut ADV RB _ 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod 23 . . 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 | **snap** | gerund | the alligator *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lure** | present | | | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fish** | | the alligator | | | | | with a pink shaped flap on alligator's tongue | tree rules | | 4 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **snap** | present | the alligator *not said here* | alligator's jaws | | | then | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=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:031-turtles-and-tortoises.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Turtles and tortoises, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/15/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/)