The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 11

The Malayan leaf frog is brown and flat with pointed folds above its eyes, so on a floor of dead leaves it looks just like one of them.

Who acts: Malayan leaf frog, leaf · What happens: be, point, look · To what, where: dead leaves

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (Malayan leaf frog, leaf), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
2	Malayan	malayan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frog	amod
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frog	compound
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brown	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 brown	cop
6	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 flat	cc
8	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brown	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 folds	case
10	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 folds	amod
11	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flat	obl
12	above	above	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 folds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 floor	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 floor	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brown	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 leaves	case
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 leaves	amod
22	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 floor	nmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looks	nsubj
24	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 leaves	acl:relcl
25	just	just	ADV	_	27 one	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 looks	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 one	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 brown	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Malayan leaf frog		brown property	tree rules
2	be		the Malayan leaf frog not said here		with pointed folds above snout's eyes	tree rules
3	point	participle				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	present	leaf	dead leaves not said here	like one of frogs	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leaf=Attribute

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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:11.

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, 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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