Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 6
The Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard, up to about 3 metres long and around 70 kilograms, and lives on a few Indonesian islands with no big cats or wolves.
Who acts: Komodo dragon · What happens: be, live · To what, where: biggest lizard, few Indonesian islands
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 (Komodo dragon), 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 | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | compound |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lizard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lizard | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lizard | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 lizard | amod |
| 7 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 metres | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 metres | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 up | fixed |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 3 | advmod |
| 12 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 metres | nummod |
| 13 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lizard | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 metres | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kilograms | cc |
| 16 | around | around | ADV | _ | 17 70 | advmod |
| 17 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 kilograms | nummod |
| 18 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 long | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lives | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lives | cc |
| 21 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lizard | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 islands | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 islands | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 islands | amod |
| 25 | Indonesian | indonesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 islands | amod |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lives | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 cats | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 cats | det |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cats | amod |
| 30 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 islands | nmod |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 wolves | cc |
| 32 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 cats | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lizard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Komodo dragon | the biggest lizard | 3 metres nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live | present | the Komodo dragon not said here | a few Indonesian islands with no big cats or wolves | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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:6.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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