--- title: Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops bloo… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops blood clotting and weakens prey. Who acts: Komodo dragons, venom. 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 its dependency tr --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 7 Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops blood clotting and weakens prey. **Who acts:** Komodo dragons, venom · **What happens:** have, stop, weaken · **To what, where:** venom glands, jaws, blood clotting, prey 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 (Komodo dragons, venom), 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:7 # text = Komodo dragons have venom glands in their jaws; the venom stops blood clotting and weakens prey. # 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 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 clotting clotting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 weakens weaken VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Komodo dragons | venom glands | | glands's jaws | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | | 2 | **stop** | present | the venom | blood clotting | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality clotting=Eventuality | | 3 | **weaken** | present | the venom *not said here* | prey | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prey=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:7`. **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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