--- title: A Komodo dragon smells with its forked tongue, which carries scent t… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: A Komodo dragon smells with its forked tongue, which carries scent to an organ in the roof of its mouth, its two tips telling left from right, and can find a dead animal kilometres away. Who acts: Komodo dragon, forked tongue, two tips. 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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, forked tongue, two tips), 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:8 # text = A Komodo dragon smells with its forked tongue, which carries scent to an organ in the roof of its mouth, its two tips telling left from right, and can find a dead animal kilometres away. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 26 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 27 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 39 . . 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 | **smell** | present | a Komodo dragon | | | | | with dragon's forked tongue | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | present | dragon's forked tongue | scent | | a organ in the roof of dragon's mouth dragon's two tips | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme to organ=Destination | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | dragon's two tips *not said here* | left | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent left=Recipient | | 5 | **find** | can | dragon's forked tongue *not said here* | a dead animal kilometres | | | | away *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilometre=Topic | 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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