Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 7
Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops blood clotting and weakens prey.
Who acts: Komodo dragons, venom · What happens: have, stop, weaken · To what, where: venom glands, jaws, blood clotting, prey
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 dragons, venom), 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 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dragons | compound |
| 2 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glands | compound |
| 5 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jaws | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 8 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stops | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 venom | det |
| 11 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stops | nsubj |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clotting | compound |
| 14 | clotting | clotting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stops | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 weakens | cc |
| 16 | weakens | weaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stops | conj |
| 17 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 weakens | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Komodo dragons | venom glands | glands's jaws | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | |||
| 2 | stop | present | the venom | blood clotting | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality clotting=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | weaken | present | the venom not said here | prey | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prey=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:7.
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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