Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 9
A Komodo dragon can eat up to about 80 percent of its own weight in one meal and then wait weeks.
Who acts: Komodo dragon · What happens: eat up, wait · To what, where: one meal
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 | 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 | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | PART | _ | 5 eat | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 percent | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 80 | advmod |
| 9 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 percent | nummod |
| 10 | percent | percent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 weight | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 weight | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weight | amod |
| 14 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 percent | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 meal | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 meal | nummod |
| 17 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wait | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 wait | advmod |
| 20 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 21 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | can | a Komodo dragon | one meal | to 80 percent of dragon's own weight | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | a Komodo dragon not said here | then; week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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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