--- title: The Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard, up to about 3 metres long a… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: The Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard, up to about 3 metres long and around 70 kilograms, and lives on a few Indonesian islands with no big cats or wolves. Who acts: Komodo dragon. 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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 (Komodo dragon), 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:6 # text = The Komodo dragon is the biggest lizard, up to about 3 metres long and around 70 kilograms, and lives on a few Indonesian islands with no big cats or wolves. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:case 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod:unmarked _ _ 14 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 around around ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 Indonesian indonesian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 29 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the Komodo dragon | the biggest lizard | | | | 3 metres *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | the Komodo dragon *not said here* | | | a few Indonesian islands with no big cats or wolves | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | 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:6`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/5/) - next →: [Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/)