Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 8
A Komodo dragon smells with its forked tongue, which carries scent to an organ in the roof of its mouth, its two tips telling left from right, and can find a dead animal kilometres away.
Who acts: Komodo dragon, forked tongue, two tips · What happens: smell, fork, carry, tell, find · To what, where: scent, organ, left, dead animal kilometres · Speech: someone speaks here
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, forked tongue, two tips), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | compound |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smells | nsubj |
| 4 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tongue | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tongue | amod |
| 8 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smells | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carries | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 12 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 organ | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 organ | det |
| 15 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carries | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 organ | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roof | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tips | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tips | nmod:poss |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 tips | nummod |
| 25 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 organ | nmod |
| 26 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 tips | acl |
| 27 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 telling | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 right | case |
| 29 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 find | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 find | cc |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 find | aux |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 carries | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 kilometres | det |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 kilometres | amod |
| 36 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kilometres | compound |
| 37 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 find | obj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 find | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smells | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | a Komodo dragon | with dragon's forked tongue | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | carry | present | dragon's forked tongue | scent | a organ in the roof of dragon's mouth dragon's two tips | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme to organ=Destination | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | dragon's two tips not said here | left | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent left=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | find | can | dragon's forked tongue not said here | a dead animal kilometres | away property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Topic |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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