--- title: Breathing fire would need a store of fuel and a spark, and the anima… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Breathing fire would need a store of fuel and a spark, and the animal's own soft, wet mouth would burn; the bombardier beetle comes closest, firing a nearly boiling chemical spray from a tough chamber. Who acts: Breathing, own soft wet mouth, bombardier beetle. 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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 (Breathing, own soft wet mouth, bombardier beetle), 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:2 # text = Breathing fire would need a store of fuel and a spark, and the animal's own soft, wet mouth would burn; the bombardier beetle comes closest, firing a nearly boiling chemical spray from a tough chamber. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Breathing breathe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fuel fuel NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 18 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 bombardier bombardier NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 closest close ADV RBS Degree=Sup 28 advmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 firing fire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advcl 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 33 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 boiling boil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 amod _ _ 35 chemical chemical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **breathe** | gerund | | fire | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 2 | **need** | would | Breathing | a store of fuel and a spark | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot store=Theme | | 3 | **burn** | would | the animal's own soft wet mouth | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | present | the bombardier beetle | | | | | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fire** | gerund | the bombardier beetle *not said here* | a boiling chemical spray | | a tough chamber | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent spray=Theme from chamber=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **boil** | gerund | | | | | | nearly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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](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:2`. **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 ×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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