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title: For example, a lizard basks on a sunny rock in the morning to warm u… — Fish, frogs and reptiles · tree and pragmatics
description: For example, a lizard basks on a sunny rock in the morning to warm up and hides in the shade at noon, and because it does not burn food for heat, it may need only a tiny part of the food a mouse of the same size eats. Who acts: lizard, mouse. A sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of th
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# Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 7

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For example, a lizard basks on a sunny rock in the morning to warm up and hides in the shade at noon, and because it does not burn food for heat, it may need only a tiny part of the food a mouse of the same size eats.

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**Who acts:** lizard, mouse · **What happens:** bask, warm up, hide, not burn, need, eat · **To what, where:** sunny rock, shade, food, tiny part

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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 (lizard, mouse), 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:7
# text = For example, a lizard basks on a sunny rock in the morning to warm up and hides in the shade at noon, and because it does not burn food for heat, it may need only a tiny part of the food a mouse of the same size eats.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	basks	bask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bask** | present | a lizard |  |  | a sunny rock | morning | for example | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **warm up** | to-infinitive | a lizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | present | a lizard *not said here* |  |  | the shade | noon |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location |
| 4 | **not** **burn** | present · do-support | lizard | food |  |  |  | for heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 5 | **need** | may | lizard | a tiny part of the food |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | present | a mouse of the same size | the food *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×1, 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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