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title: A crested gecko has five toes on each foot with wide pads covered in… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics
description: A crested gecko has five toes on each foot with wide pads covered in millions of tiny hairs that grip glass very closely, so it can walk up walls and upside down; leopard geckos have no sticky pads. Who acts: crested gecko, tiny hairs, glass, leopard geckos. A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, liza
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# Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 15

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A crested gecko has five toes on each foot with wide pads covered in millions of tiny hairs that grip glass very closely, so it can walk up walls and upside down; leopard geckos have no sticky pads.

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**Who acts:** crested gecko, tiny hairs, glass, leopard geckos · **What happens:** have, cover, grip, walk · **To what, where:** five toes, foot, wide pads, glass, walls, sticky pads

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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 (crested gecko, tiny hairs, glass, leopard geckos), 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:15
# text = A crested gecko has five toes on each foot with wide pads covered in millions of tiny hairs that grip glass very closely, so it can walk up walls and upside down; leopard geckos have no sticky pads.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crested	crest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gecko	gecko	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	grip	grip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	geckos	gecko	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
39	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | a crested gecko | five toes |  | each foot with wide pads |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | wide pads *not said here* |  |  |  | in millions of tiny hairs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in million=Theme |
| 3 | **grip** | present | tiny hairs | glass |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Experiencer |
| 4 | **walk** | can | glass |  |  | walls and upside |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up wall=Trajectory |
| 5 | **have** | present | leopard geckos | no sticky pads |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Patient |

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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): no change. **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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