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title: Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes that walk up glass. Who acts: Reptiles, sticky toes. 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 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 5

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Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes that walk up glass.

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**Who acts:** Reptiles, sticky toes · **What happens:** be, drop, walk · **To what, where:** tails, sticky toes, glass

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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 (Reptiles, sticky toes), 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:5
# text = Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes that walk up glass.
# 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 ×1
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
9	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	nmod	_	_
10	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | present | Reptiles |  |  |  |  | of such tricks; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund |  | tails |  | sticky toes |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to toe=Destination |
| 3 | **walk** | present | sticky toes |  |  | glass |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up glass=Trajectory |

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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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**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:5`.

**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 ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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