--- title: In crocodiles, alligators and many turtles, the warmth of the nest d… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: In crocodiles, alligators and many turtles, the warmth of the nest decides whether the eggs hatch as males or females; in sea turtles, warmer sand gives more females. Who acts: warmth, eggs, warmer sand. 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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 (warmth, eggs, warmer sand), 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:15 # text = In crocodiles, alligators and many turtles, the warmth of the nest decides whether the eggs hatch as males or females; in sea turtles, warmer sand gives more females. # 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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 crocodiles crocodile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 hatch hatch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 turtles turtle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 31 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **decide** | present | the warmth of the nest | | | | | in crocodiles and alligators and many turtles | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hatch** | present | the eggs | | | | | as males or females | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give** | present | warmer sand | more females | | sea turtles | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent female=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:15`. **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 ×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. 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