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title: Alligators live in fresh water all over Florida, even in small ponds… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics
description: Alligators live in fresh water all over Florida, even in small ponds and canals. Who acts: Alligators. A sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild animals: keep away, never feed, sentence 13

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Alligators live in fresh water all over Florida, even in small ponds and canals.

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**Who acts:** Alligators · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** fresh water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals: keep away, never feed» of the everyday 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 (Alligators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:026-wild-animals.lesson:13
# text = Alligators live in fresh water all over Florida, even in small ponds and canals.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 026-wild-animals.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	Alligators	alligator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	canals	canal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Alligators |  |  | fresh water |  | over Florida; in small ponds and canals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |

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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.

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**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:everyday:026-wild-animals.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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