--- title: Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scare… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes. Who acts: Chinese water dragons. 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 with it --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 17 Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes. **Who acts:** Chinese water dragons · **What happens:** live, jump, stay · **To what, where:** rivers, water 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 (Chinese water dragons), 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:17 # text = Chinese water dragons live beside rivers, jump into water when scared and can stay under for around 25 minutes. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Chinese Chinese ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 beside beside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 jump jump VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 9 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 12 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 under under ADP IN _ 15 obl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 around around ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 25 25 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Chinese water dragons | | | rivers | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=Location | | 2 | **jump** | present | Chinese water dragons *not said here* | | | | | into water *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | | 3 | **stay** | can | Chinese water dragons *not said here* | | | | minute | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-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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