The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 0

The Komodo dragon, the biggest lizard alive, flicks a long yellow tongue to smell, and a sign tells a true surprise: a female at a British zoo laid eggs that hatched with no father at all.

Who acts: Komodo dragon, sign, female, eggs · What happens: flick, smell, tell, lay, hatch · To what, where: long yellow tongue, true surprise, eggs, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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, sign, female, eggs), 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 flicks	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dragon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 lizard	amod
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dragon	appos
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lizard	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flicks	punct
10	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tongue	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tongue	amod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tongue	amod
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flicks	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 smell	mark
16	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 flicks	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tells	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tells	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sign	det
20	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tells	nsubj
21	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flicks	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 surprise	det
23	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 surprise	amod
24	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tells	obj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 laid	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 female	det
27	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 laid	nsubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 zoo	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 zoo	det
30	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 zoo	amod
31	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 female	nmod
32	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 surprise	conj
33	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 laid	obj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hatched	nsubj
35	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 eggs	acl:relcl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 father	case
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 father	det
38	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hatched	obl
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 hatched	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 flicks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flick	present	the Komodo dragon	a long yellow tongue			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
2	smell	to-infinitive	the Komodo dragon not said here				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	a sign	a true surprise			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent surprise=Recipient
4	lay	past	a female at a British zoo	eggs			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
5	hatch	past	eggs		all	with no father	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:0.

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, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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