Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 11

The goliath frog of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea is the biggest frog in the world, about 32 centimetres long and over 3 kilograms; a 2019 study reported it moves heavy stones to build little pools for its eggs.

Who acts: goliath frog, 2019 study, study · What happens: be, report, move, build · To what, where: biggest frog, world, heavy stones, little pools

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 (goliath frog, 2019 study, study), 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	3 frog	det
2	goliath	goliath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frog	compound
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frog	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Cameroon	case
5	Cameroon	Cameroon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 frog	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Guinea	cc
7	Equatorial	Equatorial	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Guinea	compound
8	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Cameroon	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 frog	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 frog	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 frog	amod
12	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frog	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 centimetres	punct
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 32	advmod
18	32	32	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 centimetres	nummod
19	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 long	obl
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 frog	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kilograms	cc
22	over	over	ADV	_	23 3	advmod
23	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 kilograms	nummod
24	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 long	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 reported	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 study	det
27	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 study	nummod
28	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reported	nsubj
29	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 frog	parataxis
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 moves	nsubj
31	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 reported	ccomp
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stones	amod
33	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 moves	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 build	mark
35	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 moves	advcl
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 pools	amod
37	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 build	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 eggs	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 eggs	nmod:poss
40	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 build	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 frog	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	is a	present	the goliath frog of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea	the biggest frog	the world		tree rules
2	report	past	a 2019 study				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	move	present	study	heavy stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme stone=Result
4	build	to-infinitive	study not said here	little pools		for study's eggs	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent pool=Product for egg=Asset

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: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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog/11/