--- title: Reptiles cannot make their own body heat, so a tank needs a warm end… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: Reptiles cannot make their own body heat, so a tank needs a warm end and a cool end, and a cold reptile cannot digest its food properly. Who acts: Reptiles, tank, cold reptile. 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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 (Reptiles, tank, cold reptile), 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:7 # text = Reptiles cannot make their own body heat, so a tank needs a warm end and a cool end, and a cold reptile cannot digest its food properly. # 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 Reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tank tank NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 reptile reptile NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 properly properly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **make** | can | Reptiles | reptiles's own body heat | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product | | 2 | **need** | present | a tank | a warm end and a cool end | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot end=Theme | | 3 | **not** **digest** | can | a cold reptile | tank's food | | | | properly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **heat** | | reptiles *= reptile* | | | | | | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:7`. **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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