The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 9

Poison dart frogs wear bright colours as a warning; wild frogs get their poison from the ants and mites they eat, so zoo frogs on other food are not poisonous.

Who acts: Poison dart frogs, wild frogs, frogs, zoo frogs · What happens: wear, get, eat, not be · To what, where: bright colours, poison, ants

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 (Poison dart frogs, wild frogs, frogs, zoo frogs), 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	Poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frogs	compound
2	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frogs	compound
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	nsubj
4	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wear	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 warning	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 warning	det
9	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wear	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 frogs	amod
12	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wear	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 poison	nmod:poss
15	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 get	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 ants	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ants	det
18	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mites	cc
20	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ants	conj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ants	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 frogs	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 frogs	advmod
25	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 frogs	compound
26	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 poisonous	nsubj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 food	case
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 food	amod
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 frogs	nmod
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 poisonous	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 poisonous	advmod
32	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wear	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	present	Poison dart frogs	bright colours		as a warning	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source
2	get	present	wild frogs	frogs's poison	the ants and mites		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from ant=Source
3	eat	present	frogs = frog	the ants and mites not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient
4	not is	present	zoo frogs on other food			poisonous property	tree rules

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:9.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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