--- title: A mother crocodile digs open her nest when the babies squeak inside… — Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents · tree and pragmatics description: A mother crocodile digs open her nest when the babies squeak inside the eggs, carries them gently to the water in her mouth and guards them for weeks or months. Who acts: mother crocodile, babies. 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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 (mother crocodile, babies), 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:13 # text = A mother crocodile digs open her nest when the babies squeak inside the eggs, carries them gently to the water in her mouth and guards them for weeks or months. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 digs dig VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 squeak squeak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 12 inside inside ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 16 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 gently gently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 guards guard VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | present | a mother crocodile | turtle's open nest | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | | 2 | **squeak** | present | the babies | | | the eggs | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside egg=Location | | 3 | **carry** | present | a mother crocodile *not said here* | babies *= baby* | | turtle's mouth | | to the water; gently *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to water=Destination | | 4 | **guard** | present | a mother crocodile *not said here* | babies *= baby* | | | week | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | 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:049-babies.lesson:13`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/12/) - next →: [Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/49-babies/)