--- title: Alligators have wide U-shaped snouts that hide their lower teeth; cr… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Alligators have wide U-shaped snouts that hide their lower teeth; crocodiles have V-shaped snouts with a big lower tooth showing, and southern Florida is the only place they live side by side in the wild. Who acts: Alligators, wide U shaped snouts, crocodiles, southern Florida. 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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 (Alligators, wide U shaped snouts, crocodiles, southern Florida), 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:13 # text = Alligators have wide U-shaped snouts that hide their lower teeth; crocodiles have V-shaped snouts with a big lower tooth showing, and southern Florida is the only place they live side by side in the wild. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 U U PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 7 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 amod _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 V V NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det 22 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod 23 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 showing showing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wild wild NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Alligators | wide U shaped snouts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **hide** | present | wide U shaped snouts | Alligators's lower teeth | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | crocodiles | V shaped snouts | | | | with tooth showing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | present | southern Florida | the only place | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | present | Alligators *= alligator* | side | | the wild | | by side | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme side=Location | 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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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