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title: Reptiles such as lizards, snakes and tortoises cannot make their own… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptiles such as lizards, snakes and tortoises cannot make their own body heat, so they rely on the lamp and heat mat an adult sets up; they also often carry salmonella germs even when they look healthy. Who acts: Reptiles, adult. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the 
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 2

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Reptiles such as lizards, snakes and tortoises cannot make their own body heat, so they rely on the lamp and heat mat an adult sets up; they also often carry salmonella germs even when they look healthy.

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**Who acts:** Reptiles, adult · **What happens:** not make, rely, set up, carry, look, heat · **To what, where:** own body heat, heat mat, salmonella germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Reptiles, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:2
# text = Reptiles such as lizards, snakes and tortoises cannot make their own body heat, so they rely on the lamp and heat mat an adult sets up; they also often carry salmonella germs even when they look healthy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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 ×1
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rely	rely	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	often	often	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
35	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
41	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **make** | can | Reptiles such lizards and snakes and tortoises | Reptiles's own body heat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heat=Product |
| 2 | **rely** | present | Reptiles *= reptile* |  |  |  |  | on the lamp and heat mat | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on lamp=Theme |
| 3 | **set up** | present | a adult | heat mat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient mat=Result |
| 4 | **carry** | infinitive | Reptiles *= reptile* | salmonella germs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 5 | **look** | present | Reptiles *= reptile* |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **heat** |  | Reptiles *= reptile* |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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 ×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.

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