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title: Reptiles' dry, scaly skin keeps water in their bodies, so many can l… — Fish, frogs and reptiles · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptiles' dry, scaly skin keeps water in their bodies, so many can live in deserts. Who acts: dry scaly skin, many. A sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 18

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Reptiles' dry, scaly skin keeps water in their bodies, so many can live in deserts.

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**Who acts:** dry scaly skin, many · **What happens:** keep, live · **To what, where:** water, bodies, deserts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world 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 (dry scaly skin, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:18
# text = Reptiles' dry, scaly skin keeps water in their bodies, so many can live in deserts.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 074-fish-frogs-reptiles.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	scaly	scaly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **keep** | present | Reptiles's dry scaly skin | water |  | Reptiles's bodies |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in body=Location |
| 2 | **live** | can | many |  |  | deserts |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=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:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:18`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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

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