The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 8

Some poison dart frogs carry each tadpole on their back up to a little pool of water in a bromeliad plant, where there are no fish to eat it.

Who acts: dart frogs, fish · What happens: carry, be, eat · To what, where: tadpole, back

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (dart frogs, fish), 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	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dart	compound
3	dart	dart	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	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tadpole	det
7	tadpole	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
11	up	up	ADV	_	15 pool	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 pool	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pool	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pool	amod
15	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tadpole	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 water	case
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pool	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 plant	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 plant	det
20	bromeliad	bromeliad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 plant	compound
21	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pool	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 are	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 are	advmod
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 are	expl
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 plant	acl:relcl
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 fish	det
27	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 are	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 eat	mark
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 fish	acl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	some dart frogs	each tadpole	frogs's back	to a little pool of water in a bromeliad plant	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme to pool=Destination
2	does	present	no fish		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	no fish not said here	tadpole			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:8.

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. 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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