--- title: A tortoise cannot leave its shell, because its ribs and backbone are… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: A tortoise cannot leave its shell, because its ribs and backbone are joined to it as part of its skeleton, and it can feel touch through the shell. Who acts: tortoise, hide. A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 17 A tortoise cannot leave its shell, because its ribs and backbone are joined to it as part of its skeleton, and it can feel touch through the shell. **Who acts:** tortoise, hide · **What happens:** not leave, join, feel · **To what, where:** shell, ribs, hide, touch 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 (tortoise, hide), 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:17 # text = A tortoise cannot leave its shell, because its ribs and backbone are joined to it as part of its skeleton, and it can feel touch through the shell. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 28 touch touch NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **leave** | can | a tortoise | hide's shell | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 2 | **join** | present · passive | | hide's ribs and backbone | hide | | | as part of hide's skeleton | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | | 3 | **feel** | can | hide | touch | | the shell | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent touch=Theme through shell=Location | 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:17`. **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. **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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