Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 2

Breathing fire would need a store of fuel and a spark, and the animal's own soft, wet mouth would burn; the bombardier beetle comes closest, firing a nearly boiling chemical spray from a tough chamber.

Who acts: Breathing, own soft wet mouth, bombardier beetle · What happens: breathe, need, burn, come, fire, boil · To what, where: fire, store, boiling chemical spray, tough chamber

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 (Breathing, own soft wet mouth, bombardier beetle), 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	Breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 need	csubj
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Breathing	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 store	det
6	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fuel	case
8	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 store	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spark	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spark	det
11	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fuel	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 burn	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 burn	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animal	det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mouth	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 animal	case
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mouth	amod
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mouth	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 soft	punct
20	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mouth	amod
21	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 burn	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 burn	aux
23	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 comes	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 beetle	det
26	bombardier	bombardier	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beetle	compound
27	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 burn	advcl
29	closest	close	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 comes	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 firing	punct
31	firing	fire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 comes	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spray	det
33	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	34 boiling	advmod
34	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 spray	amod
35	chemical	chemical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spray	amod
36	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 firing	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 chamber	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 chamber	det
39	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 chamber	amod
40	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 firing	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	breathe	gerund		fire			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
2	need	would	Breathing	a store of fuel and a spark			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot store=Theme
3	burn	would	the animal's own soft wet mouth				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	present	the bombardier beetle			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fire	gerund	the bombardier beetle not said here	a boiling chemical spray	a tough chamber		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spray=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location
6	boil	gerund				nearly property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:2.

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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