Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 17
Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes.
Who acts: Chinese water dragons · What happens: live, jump, stay · To what, where: rivers, water
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 (Chinese water dragons), 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 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragons | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragons | compound |
| 3 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 rivers | case |
| 6 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jump | punct |
| 8 | jump | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jump | obl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 scared | mark |
| 12 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jump | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stay | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | aux |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 jump | conj |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 stay | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 minutes | case |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 25 | advmod |
| 19 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 minutes | nummod |
| 20 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stay | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Chinese water dragons | rivers | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location | ||||
| 2 | jump | present | Chinese water dragons not said here | into water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | ||||
| 3 | stay | can | Chinese water dragons not said here | minute | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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