Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 12
The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to startle predators, and if that fails it runs off on its back legs.
Who acts: Australian frilled lizard, that, lizard · What happens: open, hiss, startle, fail, run off · To what, where: huge neck frill, predators, back legs
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 (Australian frilled lizard, that, lizard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lizard | det |
| 2 | Australian | Australian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lizard | amod |
| 3 | frilled | frilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lizard | amod |
| 4 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | nsubj |
| 5 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 frill | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 frill | amod |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frill | compound |
| 9 | frill | frill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opens | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hisses | cc |
| 11 | hisses | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opens | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 startle | mark |
| 13 | startle | startle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hisses | xcomp |
| 14 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 startle | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 runs | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 runs | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 fails | mark |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 fails | nsubj |
| 19 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 runs | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 runs | nsubj |
| 21 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 opens | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 runs | compound:prt |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 legs | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 legs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 legs | amod |
| 26 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 runs | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the Australian frilled lizard | a huge neck frill | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hiss | present | the Australian frilled lizard not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | startle | to-infinitive | the Australian frilled lizard not said here | predators | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus predator=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | that | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run off | present | lizard | lizard's back legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
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:12.
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): R8-pos-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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