Snakes and lizards, sentence 16
The Komodo dragon, up to 3 metres long, is the biggest lizard; it lives on a few Indonesian islands, hunts deer and has venom glands in its lower jaw.
Who acts: Komodo dragon, dragon · What happens: be, live, hunt, have · To what, where: biggest lizard, few Indonesian islands, deer, venom glands, lower jaw
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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), 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 | 14 lizard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 3 | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 3 | case |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 metres | nummod |
| 8 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dragon | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 metres | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragon | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lizard | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lizard | det |
| 13 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 lizard | amod |
| 14 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lizard | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 islands | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 islands | amod |
| 21 | Indonesian | indonesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 islands | amod |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lives | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hunts | punct |
| 24 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lives | conj |
| 25 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hunts | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 has | cc |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lives | conj |
| 28 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glands | compound |
| 29 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 jaw | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 jaw | amod |
| 33 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 glands | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lizard | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Komodo dragon 3 metres | the biggest lizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | dragon | a few Indonesian islands | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | dragon not said here | deer | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | dragon not said here | venom glands | dragon's lower 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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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