The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 14

Some rainforest poison frogs carry their tadpoles on their backs up to little pools in bromeliad plants, safe from fish, and some mothers come back to feed them unfertilised eggs, because the tiny pool has almost no other food.

Who acts: poison frogs, mothers, tiny pool · What happens: carry, come back, feed, have · To what, where: tadpoles, backs, unfertilised eggs, mothers, other food

This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 (poison frogs, mothers, tiny pool), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 frogs	det
2	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poison	compound
3	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frogs	compound
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tadpoles	nmod:poss
7	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 backs	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 backs	nmod:poss
10	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
11	up	up	ADV	_	14 pools	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 pools	case
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pools	amod
14	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 plants	case
16	bromeliad	bromeliad	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plants	compound
17	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pools	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 safe	punct
19	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 plants	amod
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 fish	case
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 safe	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 come	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 mothers	det
25	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	conj
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 feed	mark
29	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 come	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 feed	iobj
31	unfertilised	unfertilised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eggs	amod
32	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 feed	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 has	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	38 has	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 pool	det
36	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pool	amod
37	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 has	nsubj
38	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 come	advcl
39	almost	almost	ADV	_	42 food	advmod
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 food	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 food	amod
42	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 has	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	some poison frogs	frogs's tadpoles		frogs's backs	to little pools in bromeliad plants	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme to pool=Destination
2	come back	present	some mothers					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	to-infinitive	some mothers not said here	unfertilised eggs	mothers = mother			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient egg=Theme
4	have	present	the tiny pool	no other food				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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, 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:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.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): R7-rel-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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