--- title: The crocodile lying with its mouth wide open is not waiting to bite;… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: The crocodile lying with its mouth wide open is not waiting to bite; it cannot sweat, so it lets heat out through its mouth, much as a dog pants. Who acts: crocodile, mouth. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mo --- [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/3/) [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/) / 3 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 3 The crocodile lying with its mouth wide open is not waiting to bite; it cannot sweat, so it lets heat out through its mouth, much as a dog pants. **Who acts:** crocodile, mouth · **What happens:** lie, not wait, bite, not sweat, let, heat out · **To what, where:** mouth 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 (crocodile, mouth), 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:3 # text = The crocodile lying with its mouth wide open is not waiting to bite; it cannot sweat, so it lets heat out through its mouth, much as a dog pants. # 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 ×5 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod 8 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 sweat sweat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 heat heat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 much much ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj 33 pants pant VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | the crocodile *not said here* | | | | | with open | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **wait** | present · progressive | the crocodile | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bite** | to-infinitive | the crocodile *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **sweat** | can | mouth | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | present | mouth | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **heat out** | infinitive | mouth *not said here* | | | crocodile's mouth | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **pant** | present | mouth *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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 ×5. **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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