--- title: Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving ey… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper. Who acts: you, crested gecko, calcium, tongue. A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 4 Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper. **Who acts:** you, crested gecko, calcium, tongue · **What happens:** picture, lick, have, move, be · **To what, where:** crested gecko, own eyeball, moving eyelids, windscreen wiper 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 (you, crested gecko, calcium, tongue), 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:4 # text = Picture a crested gecko licking its own eyeball: it has no moving eyelids, so its tongue is its windscreen wiper. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 crested crested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 gecko gecko NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 licking lick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 eyeball eyeball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 13 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 windscreen windscreen NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 wiper wiper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a crested gecko | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent gecko=Theme | | 2 | **lick** | gerund | a crested gecko *not said here* | calcium's own eyeball | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eyeball=Source | | 3 | **have** | present | calcium | no moving eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 4 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | calcium's tongue | calcium's windscreen wiper | | | | | 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:4`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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