The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 12

Glass frogs have see-through bellies that show their insides, even the heart beating, and while asleep they hide most of their red blood in their liver to be even harder to see.

Who acts: Glass frogs, see through bellies, frogs · What happens: have, show, hide, be, see · To what, where: see through bellies, insides, most, liver

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (Glass frogs, see through bellies, 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	Glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 frogs	compound
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bellies	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bellies	punct
6	through	through	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bellies	amod
7	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 show	nsubj
9	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bellies	acl:relcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 insides	nmod:poss
11	insides	inside	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 show	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beating	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	16 beating	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beating	det
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beating	compound
16	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hide	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hide	cc
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 asleep	mark
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hide	advcl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hide	nsubj
22	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 hide	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 blood	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 blood	nmod:poss
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 blood	amod
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 most	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 liver	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 liver	nmod:poss
30	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hide	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	34 harder	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 harder	cop
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 harder	advmod
34	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 hide	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 harder	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Glass frogs	see through bellies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient
2	show	present	see through bellies	frogs's insides			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent inside=Recipient
3	hide	present	frogs = frog	most of frogs's red blood	frogs's liver		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in liver=Location
4	is	to-infinitive	frogs = frog not said here			hard property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	frogs = frog not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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