Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 2

Its round toe pads are covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre on a road.

What happens: cover, grip · To what, where: round toe pads

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: 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 pads	nmod:poss
2	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pads	amod
3	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pads	compound
4	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 cells	case
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cells	amod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sided	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 six	punct
11	sided	sided	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cells	amod
12	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 slime	case
14	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cells	nmod
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 slime	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gripping	punct
18	gripping	grip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 covered	advcl
19	like	like	ADP	_	22 tyre	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tyre	det
21	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tyre	amod
22	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gripping	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 road	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tyre	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		window's round toe pads				in tiny sided cells with slime between cells	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in cell=Theme
2	grip	gerund						like a wet tyre on a road	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:2.

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. 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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