--- title: The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs. Who acts: Australian frilled lizard. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/17/) [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/) / [The reptile house: Komodo dragons, cha…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/) / 17 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 17 The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs. **Who acts:** Australian frilled lizard · **What happens:** open, hiss, look, run away · **To what, where:** huge neck frill, back legs This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (Australian frilled lizard), 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:17 # text = The Australian frilled lizard opens a huge neck frill and hisses to look bigger, then runs away on its back legs. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Australian Australian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 frilled frilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 frill frill NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 xcomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ _ 17 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | present | the Australian frilled lizard | a huge neck frill | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frill=Theme | | 2 | **hiss** | present | the Australian frilled lizard *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Australian frilled lizard *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **run away** | present | the Australian frilled lizard *not said here* | | | lizard's back legs | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | 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:17`. **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, 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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