--- title: No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers. Who acts: real animal, bombardier beetle. A sentence of the lesson «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's p --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 5 No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers. **Who acts:** real animal, bombardier beetle · **What happens:** breathe, spray, boil · **To what, where:** fire, boiling chemical mix, tough chamber 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 (real animal, 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:5 # text = No real animal breathes fire; the bombardier beetle sprays a nearly boiling chemical mix from a tough chamber at attackers. # 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 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 bombardier bombardier NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sprays spray VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 boiling boil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 14 chemical chemical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 chamber chamber NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 attackers attacker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 . . 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** | present | no real animal | fire | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | | 2 | **spray** | present | the bombardier beetle | a boiling chemical mix | | a tough chamber at attackers | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mix=Theme | | 3 | **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. 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