--- title: The Komodo dragon is the biggest living lizard, up to about 3 metres… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: The Komodo dragon is the biggest living lizard, up to about 3 metres long, found on a few islands in Indonesia; its flicking tongue can smell a dead animal from far away, and it has venom glands in its jaw. Who acts: Komodo dragon, flicking tongue, tongue. 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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, flicking tongue, tongue), 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:4 # text = The Komodo dragon is the biggest living lizard, up to about 3 metres long, found on a few islands in Indonesia; its flicking tongue can smell a dead animal from far away, and it has venom glands in its jaw. # 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 ×3, 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 8 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 Indonesia Indonesia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 flicking flick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 amod _ _ 27 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 40 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod 45 . . 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 | **is a** | present | the Komodo dragon | the biggest living lizard | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **find** | participle | | the biggest living lizard *not said here* | | a few islands in Indonesia | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **flick** | gerund | | | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **smell** | can | dragon's flicking tongue | a dead animal | | | | far *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | tongue | venom glands | | dragon's 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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:4`. **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 ×3, 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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