--- title: A Komodo dragon can eat up to about 80 percent of its own weight in… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and… · tree and pragmatics description: A Komodo dragon can eat up to about 80 percent of its own weight in one meal and then wait weeks. Who acts: Komodo dragon. 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 tree and --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire, sentence 9 A Komodo dragon can eat up to about 80 percent of its own weight in one meal and then wait weeks. **Who acts:** Komodo dragon · **What happens:** eat up, wait · **To what, where:** one meal 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 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:9 # text = A Komodo dragon can eat up to about 80 percent of its own weight in one meal and then wait weeks. # 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 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 up up PART RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 80 80 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 percent percent NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 21 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat up** | can | a Komodo dragon | | | one meal | | to 80 percent of dragon's own weight | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **wait** | infinitive | a Komodo dragon *not said here* | | | | then; week | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. 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