--- title: A bearded dragon bobbing its head is signalling that it is in charge… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: A bearded dragon bobbing its head is signalling that it is in charge, waving one arm is a calm giving-way signal, and its beard turns dark when stressed or showing off; bearded dragons come from the dry lands of Australia. Who acts: bearded dragon, dragon, waving, beard. 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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 (bearded dragon, dragon, waving, beard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:14 # text = A bearded dragon bobbing its head is signalling that it is in charge, waving one arm is a calm giving-way signal, and its beard turns dark when stressed or showing off; bearded dragons come from the dry lands of Australia. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 bobbing bob VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 signalling signal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 waving wave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 csubj _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 21 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 amod _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 signal signal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 33 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 bearded bearded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bob** | gerund | a bearded dragon *not said here* | dragon's head | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **signal** *speech: other* | present · progressive | a bearded dragon | | | | | | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | dragon | | | charge | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wave** | gerund | | one arm | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 5 | **give** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **be** *speech: other* | present | waving | a calm giving way signal | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **turn** | present | dragon's beard | | | | | dark *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stress** | participle | dragon's beard *not said here* | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **show off** | gerund | dragon's beard *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **come** | present | bearded dragons | | | the dry lands of Australia | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial\_Location | 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:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.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 ×2, 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. 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