The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 5

Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo in the 2000s laid eggs that hatched without a male, which is called virgin birth.

Who acts: Female Komodo dragons, eggs · What happens: lay, hatch, call · To what, where: eggs, 2000s, male · 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 (Female Komodo dragons, 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	Female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dragons	amod
2	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dragons	compound
3	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laid	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Zoo	case
5	Chester	Chester	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zoo	compound
6	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dragons	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Zoo	cc
8	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Zoo	compound
9	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Zoo	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 2000s	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 2000s	det
12	2000s	2000	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	13 laid	obl
13	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laid	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hatched	nsubj
16	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eggs	acl:relcl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 male	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 male	det
19	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hatched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 called	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 called	aux:pass
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 male	acl:relcl
24	virgin	virgin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 birth	amod
25	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 laid	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo	eggs	the 2000s		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in 2000=Destination
2	hatch	past	eggs			without a male	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
3	call	present · passive		a male			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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