--- title: Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo in the 2000s lai… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo in the 2000s laid eggs that hatched without a male, which is called virgin birth. Who acts: Female Komodo dragons, eggs. A sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mov --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 5 Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo in the 2000s laid eggs that hatched without a male, which is called virgin birth. **Who acts:** Female Komodo dragons, eggs · **What happens:** lay, hatch, call · **To what, where:** eggs, 2000s, male · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Female Komodo dragons, 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:5 # text = Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo in the 2000s laid eggs that hatched without a male, which is called virgin birth. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Komodo Komodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Chester Chester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 Zoo Zoo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 2000s 2000 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 13 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hatched hatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 without without ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 male male NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 virgin virgin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | Female Komodo dragons at Chester Zoo and London Zoo | eggs | | the 2000s | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in 2000=Destination | | 2 | **hatch** | past | eggs | | | | | without a male | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | a male | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:5`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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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