--- title: Tortoises from cooler places slow right down and sleep through winte… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: Tortoises from cooler places slow right down and sleep through winter, and a vet checks them first because a sick or thin tortoise can die during it. Who acts: Tortoises, vet, sick tortoise. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoises, vet, sick tortoise), 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:13 # text = Tortoises from cooler places slow right down and sleep through winter, and a vet checks them first because a sick or thin tortoise can die during it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 cooler cooler ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 right right ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 vet vet NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 checks check VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 16 advmod _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 27 during during ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slow** | present | Tortoises from cooler places | | | | | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **sleep** | present | Tortoises from cooler places *not said here* | | | | winter | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **check** | present | a vet | Tortoises *= tortoise* | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **die** | can | a sick tortoise | | | | during vet | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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