Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 4
The Komodo dragon of Indonesia is the largest living lizard, up to about three metres long; it ambushes deer and pigs, and its bite has venom that stops blood from clotting.
Who acts: Komodo dragon, dragon, bite, venom · What happens: be, ambush, have, stop, clot, bite · To what, where: largest living lizard, deer, venom, blood
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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, dragon, bite, 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 | 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 | 10 lizard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Indonesia | case |
| 5 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lizard | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lizard | det |
| 8 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 lizard | amod |
| 9 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lizard | amod |
| 10 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 metres | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 three | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 three | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 three | advmod |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 metres | nummod |
| 16 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 long | obl |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lizard | amod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 deer | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ambushes | nsubj |
| 20 | ambushes | ambush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lizard | parataxis |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ambushes | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pigs | cc |
| 23 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 deer | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 has | cc |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bite | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ambushes | conj |
| 29 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 stops | nsubj |
| 31 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 venom | acl:relcl |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stops | obj |
| 33 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 34 clotting | mark |
| 34 | clotting | clot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 stops | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lizard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Komodo dragon of Indonesia | the largest living lizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ambush | present | dragon | deer and pigs | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | dragon's bite | venom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | ||||
| 4 | stop | present | venom | blood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | clot | gerund | venom not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bite | dragon | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:4.
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 ×3. 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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