--- title: The frilled lizard spreads a frill around its neck, held open by rod… — The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, tho… · tree and pragmatics description: The frilled lizard spreads a frill around its neck, held open by rods of cartilage, the bendy stuff in your ears, like an umbrella, to look bigger and frightening. Who acts: frilled lizard. 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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 (frilled lizard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:9 # text = The frilled lizard spreads a frill around its neck, held open by rods of cartilage, the bendy stuff in your ears, like an umbrella, to look bigger and frightening. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 frilled frilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 frill frill NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl 12 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rods rod NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 cartilage cartilage NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 bendy bendy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 umbrella umbrella NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 31 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 frightening frightening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | the frilled lizard | a frill | | lizard's neck | | like a umbrella | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frill=Theme around neck=Destination | | 2 | **hold** | participle | the frilled lizard *not said here* | | | | | by rods of cartilage; open *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rod=Location | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the frilled lizard *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:9`. **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. **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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