--- title: Alligators live in Florida and the southern USA, can move fast and a… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics description: Alligators live in Florida and the southern USA, can move fast and attack, so you stay well away from the water's edge in alligator areas. Who acts: Alligators, you. 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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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:10 # text = Alligators live in Florida and the southern USA, can move fast and attack, so you stay well away from the water's edge in alligator areas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 070-respecting-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 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 _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 USA USA PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 move move VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 alligator alligator NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 areas area NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 . . 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 | **live** | present | Alligators | | | Florida and the southern USA | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in florida=Location | | 2 | **move** | can | Alligators *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **attack** | infinitive | Alligators *not said here* | | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stay** | present | you | | | the water's edge in alligator areas | | away *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:10`. **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: [Respecting wild animals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/9/) - next →: [Respecting wild animals, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/)