--- title: Geckos stick to glass with millions of tiny toe hairs that cling by… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Geckos stick to glass with millions of tiny toe hairs that cling by very weak attractions between molecules, and scientists have made tape that copies them. Who acts: Geckos, tiny toe hairs, scientists, tape. 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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 (Geckos, tiny toe hairs, scientists, tape), 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:8 # text = Geckos stick to glass with millions of tiny toe hairs that cling by very weak attractions between molecules, and scientists have made tape that copies them. # 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): no change 1 Geckos gecko NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 cling cling VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 attractions attraction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 molecules molecule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 24 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **stick** | present | Geckos | | | | | to glass; with millions of tiny toe hairs | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with million=Instrument | | 2 | **cling** | present | tiny toe hairs | | | | | by weak attractions between molecules | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by attraction=Location | | 3 | **make** | present · perfect | scientists | tape | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tape=Product | | 4 | **copy** | present | tape | scientists *= scientist* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:8`. **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): no change. **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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