Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 5
People once thought germs in the Komodo dragon's mouth killed its prey, but scientists found it has venom glands in its jaw.
Who acts: People, germs, scientists, dragon · What happens: think, kill, find, have · To what, where: prey, venom glands, jaw · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (People, germs, scientists, 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dragon | det |
| 7 | Komodo | Komodo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 dragon | compound |
| 8 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 dragon | case |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 germs | nmod |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 16 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | ccomp |
| 20 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glands | compound |
| 21 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 has | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 jaw | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 24 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glands | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | People | once property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | germs in the Komodo dragon's mouth | dragon's prey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | scientists | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | dragon | venom glands | dragon's jaw | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:5.
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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