--- title: The Komodo dragon of Indonesia is the largest living lizard, up to a… — Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red c… · tree and pragmatics description: The Komodo dragon of Indonesia is the largest living lizard, up to about three metres long; it ambushes deer and pigs, and its bite has venom that stops blood from clotting. Who acts: Komodo dragon, dragon, bite, venom. 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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, dragon, bite, venom), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:4 # text = The Komodo dragon of Indonesia is the largest living lizard, up to about three metres long; it ambushes deer and pigs, and its bite has venom that stops blood from clotting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.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 ×3 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 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 9 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:unmarked 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ambushes ambush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 21 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 29 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 from from SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 clotting clot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Komodo dragon of Indonesia | the largest living lizard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ambush** | present | dragon | deer and pigs | | | | | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient | | 3 | **have** | present | dragon's bite | venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | present | venom | blood | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality | | 5 | **clot** | gerund | venom *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **bite** | | dragon | | | | | | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:4`. **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 ×3. **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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