--- title: In Florida, alligators live in lakes, ponds and canals, so children… — Wild animals: keep away, never feed · tree and pragmatics description: In Florida, alligators live in lakes, ponds and canals, so children stay well back from the water's edge, swim only in safe marked places in daylight and keep pets away from the water. Who acts: alligators, children. 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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, children), 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:3 # text = In Florida, alligators live in lakes, ponds and canals, so children stay well back from the water's edge, swim only in safe marked places in daylight and keep pets away from the water. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 alligators alligator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 lakes lake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ponds pond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 25 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 34 pets pet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | alligators | | | Florida | | in lakes and ponds and canals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in florida=Location | | 2 | **stay** | present | children | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **swim** | present | children *not said here* | | | safe marked places in daylight | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory | | 4 | **mark** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **keep away** | present | children *not said here* | | pets | the water | | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer pet=Beneficiary from water=Eventuality | 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:everyday:026-wild-animals.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): R3-conj-first ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wild animals: keep away, never feed, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/2/) - next →: [Wild animals: keep away, never feed, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/26-wild-animals/)