--- title: Reptiles have dry, scaly skin that keeps water in, and their eggs ha… — Fish, frogs and reptiles · tree and pragmatics description: Reptiles have dry, scaly skin that keeps water in, and their eggs have a tough shell, so they can live far from water, even in deserts. Who acts: Reptiles, dry scaly skin, eggs. A sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Fish, frogs and reptiles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/) / 5 # Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 5 Reptiles have dry, scaly skin that keeps water in, and their eggs have a tough shell, so they can live far from water, even in deserts. **Who acts:** Reptiles, dry scaly skin, eggs · **What happens:** have, keep in, live · **To what, where:** dry scaly skin, water, tough shell, deserts 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 (Reptiles, dry scaly skin, eggs), 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:5 # text = Reptiles have dry, scaly skin that keeps water in, and their eggs have a tough shell, so they can live far from water, even 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 ×1 1 Reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 scaly scaly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **have** | present | Reptiles | dry scaly skin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 2 | **keep in** | present | dry scaly skin | water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | Reptiles's eggs | a tough shell | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | | 4 | **live** | can | eggs *= egg* | | | deserts | | far *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location | 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:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:5`. **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 ×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: [Fish, frogs and reptiles, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/4/) - next →: [Fish, frogs and reptiles, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/74-fish-frogs-reptiles/)