The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 17

The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs.

Who acts: Australian frilled lizard · What happens: open, hiss, look, run away · To what, where: huge neck frill, back legs

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 (Australian frilled lizard), 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	4 lizard	det
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lizard	amod
3	frilled	frilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lizard	amod
4	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opens	nsubj
5	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frill	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 frill	amod
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frill	compound
9	frill	frill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opens	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hisses	cc
11	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opens	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hisses	xcomp
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 look	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 runs	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 runs	advmod
17	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 opens	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 runs	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 legs	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 legs	nmod:poss
21	back	back	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 legs	amod
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 runs	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opens	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	the Australian frilled lizard	a huge neck frill				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frill=Theme
2	hiss	present	the Australian frilled lizard not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	to-infinitive	the Australian frilled lizard not said here				big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	run away	present	the Australian frilled lizard not said here		lizard's back legs	then	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory

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:17.

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 ×1, 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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