--- title: The Gila monster is a venomous lizard that stores fat in its thick t… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: The Gila monster is a venomous lizard that stores fat in its thick tail and eats big meals only a few times a year; a medicine for diabetes was made from a chemical in its saliva. Who acts: Gila monster, venomous 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 (Gila monster, venomous lizard), 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:14 # text = The Gila monster is a venomous lizard that stores fat in its thick tail and eats big meals only a few times a year; a medicine for diabetes was made from a chemical in its saliva. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Gila Gila PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stores store VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 fat fat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 in in 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 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:unmarked _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 diabetes diabetes NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 chemical chemical NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 saliva saliva NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Gila monster | a venomous lizard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **store** | present | a venomous lizard | fat | | monster's thick tail | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in tail=Location | | 3 | **eat** | present | a venomous lizard *not said here* | big meals | | | time | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | a medicine for diabetes | | a chemical in monster's saliva | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from chemical=Material | 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:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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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