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title: Reptile lamps give UVB light like sunshine, which helps the body mak… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptile lamps give UVB light like sunshine, which helps the body make vitamin D; without it reptiles cannot use calcium and their bones grow soft and bent, and window glass blocks most UVB. Who acts: Reptile lamps, sunshine, body, reptiles. A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as 
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# Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 8

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Reptile lamps give UVB light like sunshine, which helps the body make vitamin D; without it reptiles cannot use calcium and their bones grow soft and bent, and window glass blocks most UVB.

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**Who acts:** Reptile lamps, sunshine, body, reptiles, bones, window glass · **What happens:** give, help, make, not use, grow, block · **To what, where:** UVB light, body, vitamin, calcium, most UVB

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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 (Reptile lamps, sunshine, body, reptiles), 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:8
# text = Reptile lamps give UVB light like sunshine, which helps the body make vitamin D; without it reptiles cannot use calcium and their bones grow soft and bent, and window glass blocks most UVB.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	UVB	uvb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	D	D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
17	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
19	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
23	calcium	calcium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
28	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	blocks	block	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	UVB	uvb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Reptile lamps | UVB light |  |  |  | like sunshine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | sunshine | the body |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | the body *not said here* | vitamin |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vitamin=Product |
| 4 | **not** **use** | can | reptiles | calcium |  |  |  | without vitamin | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calcium=Patient |
| 5 | **grow** | present | reptiles's bones |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **block** | present | window glass | most UVB |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer uvb=Theme |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

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