Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 15
No animal collects gold; bowerbirds decorate their display areas with blue or shiny objects, and the idea that magpies steal shiny things is mostly a myth, as tests found magpies are wary of shiny objects.
Who acts: animal, bowerbirds, magpies, idea, tests · What happens: collect, decorate, steal, be, find · To what, where: gold, display areas, shiny things, myth · 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 (animal, bowerbirds, magpies, idea), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | nsubj |
| 3 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 decorate | punct |
| 6 | bowerbirds | bowerbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decorate | nsubj |
| 7 | decorate | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 collects | parataxis |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 areas | nmod:poss |
| 9 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 areas | compound |
| 10 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decorate | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 objects | case |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 objects | amod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 shiny | cc |
| 14 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blue | conj |
| 15 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 decorate | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 myth | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 myth | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 idea | det |
| 19 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 myth | nsubj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 steal | mark |
| 21 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 steal | nsubj |
| 22 | steal | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 idea | acl |
| 23 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 things | amod |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 steal | obj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 myth | cop |
| 26 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 28 myth | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 myth | det |
| 28 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collects | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 steal | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 31 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 steal | advcl |
| 33 | magpies | magpie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wary | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 wary | cop |
| 35 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 found | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 objects | case |
| 37 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 objects | amod |
| 38 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wary | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collects | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | no animal | gold | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decorate | present | bowerbirds | bowerbirds's display areas | with blue objects | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent area=Destination with object=Theme | |||
| 3 | steal | present | magpies | shiny things | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the idea | a myth | mostly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | find | past | tests | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | magpies | of shiny objects; wary property | tree rules |
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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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