--- title: The Komodo dragon, the biggest lizard alive, flicks a long yellow to… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: The Komodo dragon, the biggest lizard alive, flicks a long yellow tongue to smell, and a sign tells a true surprise: a female at a British zoo laid eggs that hatched with no father at all. Who acts: Komodo dragon, sign, female, eggs. 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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, sign, female, eggs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:0 # text = The Komodo dragon, the biggest lizard alive, flicks a long yellow tongue to smell, and a sign tells a true surprise: a female at a British zoo laid eggs that hatched with no father at all. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 8 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 female female NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 33 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl:relcl 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 obl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **flick** | present | the Komodo dragon | a long yellow tongue | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 2 | **smell** | to-infinitive | the Komodo dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a sign | a true surprise | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent surprise=Recipient | | 4 | **lay** | past | a female at a British zoo | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 5 | **hatch** | past | eggs | | | all | | with no father | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:0`. **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, R8-pos-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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