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title: In sea turtles and crocodiles the warmth of the nest decides whether… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics
description: In sea turtles and crocodiles the warmth of the nest decides whether babies become male or female, and bright lights on beaches can lead turtle hatchlings the wrong way. Who acts: warmth, babies, bright lights. A sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» of the biology c
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# Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 12

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In sea turtles and crocodiles the warmth of the nest decides whether babies become male or female, and bright lights on beaches can lead turtle hatchlings the wrong way.

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**Who acts:** warmth, babies, bright lights · **What happens:** decide, become, lead · **To what, where:** sea turtles, turtle hatchlings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (warmth, babies, bright lights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:049-babies.lesson:12
# text = In sea turtles and crocodiles the warmth of the nest decides whether babies become male or female, and bright lights on beaches can lead turtle hatchlings the wrong way.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 049-babies.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **decide** | present | the warmth of the nest |  |  | sea turtles and crocodiles |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | present | babies |  |  |  |  | male *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lead** | can | bright lights on beaches | turtle hatchlings |  |  |  | the wrong way *obl:unmarked* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchling=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): 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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