Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 14
A bearded dragon bobbing its head is signalling that it is in charge, waving one arm is a calm giving-way signal, and its beard turns dark when stressed or showing off; bearded dragons come from the dry lands of Australia.
Who acts: bearded dragon, dragon, waving, beard, bearded dragons · What happens: bob, signal, be, wave, give, turn · To what, where: head, charge, one arm, calm giving way signal, dry lands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 (bearded dragon, dragon, waving, beard), 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 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dragon | amod |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signalling | nsubj |
| 4 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 dragon | acl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bobbing | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 signalling | aux |
| 8 | signalling | signal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 charge | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 charge | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 charge | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 charge | case |
| 13 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signalling | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 signal | punct |
| 15 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 signal | csubj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 arm | nummod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waving | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 signal | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 signal | det |
| 20 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 signal | amod |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 signal | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 giving | punct |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 signal | compound |
| 24 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signalling | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 turns | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 turns | cc |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 beard | nmod:poss |
| 28 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turns | nsubj |
| 29 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 signalling | conj |
| 30 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 turns | xcomp |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 stressed | advmod |
| 32 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 turns | advcl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 showing | cc |
| 34 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 stressed | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 showing | compound:prt |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 come | punct |
| 37 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 dragons | amod |
| 38 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 signalling | parataxis |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 lands | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lands | det |
| 42 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 lands | amod |
| 43 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 come | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Australia | case |
| 45 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 lands | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 signalling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bob | gerund | a bearded dragon not said here | dragon's head | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | signal speech: other | present · progressive | a bearded dragon | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | dragon | charge | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | one arm | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||||
| 5 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | be speech: other | present | waving | a calm giving way signal | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | turn | present | dragon's beard | dark property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | stress | participle | dragon's beard not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | show off | gerund | dragon's beard not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | come | present | bearded dragons | the dry lands of Australia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location |
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:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:14.
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 ×2, 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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