--- title: Female Komodo dragons in British zoos laid eggs that hatched with no… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Female Komodo dragons in British zoos laid eggs that hatched with no father, a rare virgin birth called parthenogenesis. Who acts: Female Komodo dragons, eggs, rare virgin birth. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology cours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/) / 10 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 10 Female Komodo dragons in British zoos laid eggs that hatched with no father, a rare virgin birth called parthenogenesis. **Who acts:** Female Komodo dragons, eggs, rare virgin birth · **What happens:** lay, hatch, call · **To what, where:** eggs, parthenogenesis · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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, rare virgin birth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:10 # text = Female Komodo dragons in British zoos laid eggs that hatched with no father, a rare virgin birth called parthenogenesis. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 zoos zoo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 virgin virgin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl _ _ 20 parthenogenesis parthenogenesis NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 xcomp _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | Female Komodo dragons in British zoos | eggs | | | | a rare virgin birth *obl* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 2 | **hatch** | past | eggs | | | | | with no father | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | a rare virgin birth *not said here* | parthenogenesis | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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