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A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova's primar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands/12/) [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/) / [Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands/) / 12 # Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 12 Pet tortoises often live 50 years and some much longer, and Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena, is reported to be around 190 years old. **Who acts:** Pet tortoises · **What happens:** live, report, be · **To what, where:** Jonathan This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 (Pet tortoises), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:12 # text = Pet tortoises often live 50 years and some much longer, and Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena, is reported to be around 190 years old. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 conj _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 13 Jonathan Jonathan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:desc _ _ 20 Helena Helena PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 24 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 cop _ _ 26 around around ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 190 190 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **live** | present | Pet tortoises | | | | year | often *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **report** | present · passive | | Jonathan | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | 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:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-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. 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