Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 0
Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in amazing shapes: frogs that stick to glass, frogs you can see through, frogs that glide between trees, a frog as big as a house cat and frogs small enough to sit on your fingernail.
Who acts: Frogs, you · What happens: live, come, stick, see through, glide, sit · To what, where: continent, amazing shapes, frogs, trees, fingernail
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» 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 (Frogs, you), 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 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 continent | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 continent | det |
| 5 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 Antarctica | case |
| 7 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 continent | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 come | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 shapes | case |
| 13 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shapes | amod |
| 14 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 frogs | punct |
| 16 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shapes | appos |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stick | nsubj |
| 18 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 glass | case |
| 20 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stick | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 frogs | punct |
| 22 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 frogs | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 26 | through | through | ADV | _ | 25 see | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 frogs | punct |
| 28 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shapes | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 glide | nsubj |
| 30 | glide | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 frogs | acl:relcl |
| 31 | between | between | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 glide | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 frog | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 frog | det |
| 35 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | conj |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | _ | 37 big | advmod |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 frog | amod |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 cat | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 cat | det |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cat | compound |
| 41 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 big | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 frogs | cc |
| 43 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 cat | conj |
| 44 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 frog | conj |
| 45 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 44 small | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 sit | mark |
| 47 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 small | advcl |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 fingernail | case |
| 49 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 fingernail | nmod:poss |
| 50 | fingernail | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sit | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Frogs | every continent except Antarctica | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | present | Frogs = frog | amazing shapes and frogs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location | ||||
| 3 | stick | present | frogs and frogs | to glass | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to glass=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | see through | can | you | frogs not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | glide | present | frogs | trees | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | sit | to-infinitive | Frogs not said here | your fingernail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fingernail=Location |
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:308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog.lesson:0.
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 ×2, 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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