Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 10

Female Komodo dragons in British zoos laid eggs that hatched with no father, a rare virgin birth called parthenogenesis.

Who acts: Female Komodo dragons, eggs, rare virgin birth · What happens: lay, hatch, call · To what, where: eggs, parthenogenesis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology 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 (Female Komodo dragons, eggs, rare virgin birth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dragons	amod
2	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dragons	compound
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laid	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 zoos	case
5	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zoos	amod
6	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dragons	nmod
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laid	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hatched	nsubj
10	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eggs	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 father	det
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hatched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 birth	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 birth	det
16	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 birth	amod
17	virgin	virgin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 birth	compound
18	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obl
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 birth	acl
20	parthenogenesis	parthenogenesis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Female Komodo dragons in British zoos	eggs	a rare virgin birth obl	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	hatch	past	eggs		with no father	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	call	participle	a rare virgin birth not said here	parthenogenesis		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, 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:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.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): no change. 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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