The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 4
The Komodo dragon is the biggest living lizard, up to about 3 metres long, found on a few islands in Indonesia; its flicking tongue can smell a dead animal from far away, and it has venom glands in its jaw.
Who acts: Komodo dragon, flicking tongue, tongue · What happens: be, find, flick, smell, have · To what, where: biggest living lizard, few islands, dead animal, venom glands, jaw
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, flicking tongue, tongue), 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 | 8 lizard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lizard | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lizard | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 lizard | amod |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lizard | amod |
| 8 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 metres | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 3 | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 3 | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 3 | advmod |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 14 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 long | obl |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lizard | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lizard | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 islands | amod |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Indonesia | case |
| 23 | Indonesia | Indonesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 islands | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 flicking | punct |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flicking | flick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 tongue | amod |
| 27 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smell | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 smell | aux |
| 29 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lizard | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 animal | det |
| 31 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 animal | amod |
| 32 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 smell | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 far | case |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 smell | advmod |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 far | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 has | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 has | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 has | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lizard | conj |
| 40 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 glands | compound |
| 41 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 has | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 jaw | case |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 jaw | nmod:poss |
| 44 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 has | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | the biggest living lizard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | participle | the biggest living lizard not said here | a few islands in Indonesia | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | flick | gerund | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | smell | can | dragon's flicking tongue | a dead animal | far property | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | have | present | tongue | 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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:4.
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 ×3, 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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