--- title: The Komodo dragon, up to 3 metres long, is the biggest lizard; it li… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: The Komodo dragon, up to 3 metres long, is the biggest lizard; it lives on a few Indonesian islands, hunts deer and has venom glands in its lower jaw. Who acts: Komodo dragon, dragon. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/16/) [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/) / [Snakes and lizards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/) / 16 # Snakes and lizards, sentence 16 The Komodo dragon, up to 3 metres long, is the biggest lizard; it lives on a few Indonesian islands, hunts deer and has venom glands in its lower jaw. **Who acts:** Komodo dragon, dragon · **What happens:** be, live, hunt, have · **To what, where:** biggest lizard, few Indonesian islands, deer, venom glands, lower jaw This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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, dragon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:16 # text = The Komodo dragon, up to 3 metres long, is the biggest lizard; it lives on a few Indonesian islands, hunts deer and has venom glands in its lower jaw. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 030-snakes-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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 14 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 5 up up ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 9 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 18 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Indonesian indonesian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 lower low ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 Komodo dragon 3 metres | the biggest lizard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | dragon | | | a few Indonesian islands | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | | 3 | **hunt** | present | dragon *not said here* | deer | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | dragon *not said here* | venom glands | | dragon's lower jaw | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient | 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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:16`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snakes and lizards, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/15/) - next →: [Turtles and tortoises, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)