Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 5
No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers.
Who acts: real animal, bombardier beetle · What happens: breathe, spray, boil · To what, where: fire, boiling chemical mix, 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 (real animal, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathes | nsubj |
| 4 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathes | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathes | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beetle | det |
| 8 | bombardier | bombardier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beetle | compound |
| 9 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprays | nsubj |
| 10 | sprays | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathes | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mix | det |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 boiling | advmod |
| 13 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 mix | amod |
| 14 | chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mix | amod |
| 15 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprays | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 chamber | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 chamber | det |
| 18 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chamber | amod |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprays | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 attackers | case |
| 21 | attackers | attacker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 chamber | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | no real animal | fire | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spray | present | the bombardier beetle | a boiling chemical mix | a tough chamber at attackers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mix=Theme | |||
| 3 | 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:5.
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. 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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