--- title: Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes at dogs, foxes and c… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes at dogs, foxes and coyotes; the blood tastes bad to them, but the lizards do not do it to birds. Who acts: Horned lizards, blood, lizards. 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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 (Horned lizards, blood, lizards), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:12 # text = Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes at dogs, foxes and coyotes; the blood tastes bad to them, but the lizards do not do it to birds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 squirt squirt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 foxes fox NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 coyotes coyote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 tastes taste VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **squirt** | can | Horned lizards | blood | | lizards's eyes | | at dogs and foxes and coyotes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent blood=Theme at dog=Destination | | 2 | **taste** | present | the blood | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **do** | present · do-support | the lizards | blood | | | | to birds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:12`. **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): 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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