Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 9
In many glass frogs the father guards the eggs on a leaf, keeping them wet and safe from wasps.
Who acts: father · What happens: guard, keep · To what, where: eggs, leaf, Frogs
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 (father), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 frogs | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 frogs | amod |
| 3 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frogs | compound |
| 4 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guards | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guards | nsubj |
| 7 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eggs | det |
| 9 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 guards | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 leaf | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 leaf | det |
| 12 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guards | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeping | punct |
| 14 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 guards | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeping | obj |
| 16 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 keeping | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 safe | cc |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wet | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 wasps | case |
| 20 | wasps | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 safe | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 guards | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guard | present | the father | the eggs | a leaf | in many glass frogs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | keep | gerund | the father not said here | Frogs = frog | wet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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:9.
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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