--- title: The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to startle predators, and if that fails it runs off on its back legs. Who acts: Australian frilled lizard, that, lizard. 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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, that, lizard), 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:12 # text = The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to startle predators, and if that fails it runs off on its back legs. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 frilled frilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 frill frill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 startle startle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 that that PRON DT PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | **startle** | to-infinitive | the Australian frilled lizard *not said here* | predators | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus predator=Experiencer | | 4 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run off** | present | lizard | | | lizard's back legs | | | 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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards.lesson:12`. **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): 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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