--- title: The tuatara looks like a lizard but is the last survivor of an ancie… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos,… · tree and pragmatics description: The tuatara looks like a lizard but is the last survivor of an ancient group of reptiles; it lives on cool New Zealand islands and can live over 100 years. Who acts: tuatara. 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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 (tuatara), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:16 # text = The tuatara looks like a lizard but is the last survivor of an ancient group of reptiles; it lives on cool New Zealand islands and can live over 100 years. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tuatara tuatara NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 survivor survivor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 21 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 23 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Zealand Zealand PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 29 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **look** | present | the tuatara | | | | | like a lizard | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is a** | present | the tuatara *not said here* | the last survivor | | | | of a ancient group of reptiles | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | tuatara | | | cool Zealand islands | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 4 | **live** | can | tuatara *not said here* | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:16`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Animals of Australia and New Zealand:…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/15/) - next →: [Animals of North America and Britain:…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/80-animals-of-north-america-and-britain/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/)