--- title: A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and b… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone, so it can never leave it. Who acts: shell. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The reptile house: Komodo dragons, cha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/) / 10 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 10 A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone, so it can never leave it. **Who acts:** shell · **What happens:** be, join, not leave · **To what, where:** part, tortoise This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (shell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:10 # text = A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone, so it can never leave it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 skeleton skeleton NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 backbone backbone NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a tortoise's shell | part | | | | of shell's skeleton | tree rules | | 2 | **join** | participle | a tortoise's shell *not said here* | | | | | to shell's ribs and backbone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to rib=Co-Patient | | 3 | **not** **leave** | can | shell | tortoise | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:10`. **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): 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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