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title: Reptiles such as turtles, snakes and lizards often carry Salmonella… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptiles such as turtles, snakes and lizards often carry Salmonella germs that can make people sick. Who acts: Reptiles, Salmonella germs. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 24

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Reptiles such as turtles, snakes and lizards often carry Salmonella germs that can make people sick.

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**Who acts:** Reptiles, Salmonella germs · **What happens:** carry, make · **To what, where:** Salmonella germs, people

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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, Salmonella germs), 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:24
# text = Reptiles such as turtles, snakes and lizards often carry Salmonella germs that can make people sick.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	turtles	turtle	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	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
12	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **carry** | present | Reptiles such turtles and snakes and lizards | Salmonella germs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | can | Salmonella germs | people |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product |

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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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:24`.

**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): R8-pos-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.

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

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