Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, sentence 17
The Goliath frog of West Africa can be about 32 cm long and weigh over 3 kg, while the smallest frogs are under 8 mm long.
Who acts: Goliath frog, smallest frogs · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: 3 kg, 8 mm
This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders» 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, smallest frogs), 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 long | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Africa | case |
| 5 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Africa | compound |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frog | nmod |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 long | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 32 | advmod |
| 10 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 cm | nummod |
| 11 | cm | cm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 long | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 weigh | cc |
| 14 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 long | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 3 | advmod |
| 16 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 kg | nummod |
| 17 | kg | kg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weigh | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mm | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 mm | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 frogs | det |
| 21 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 frogs | amod |
| 22 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 mm | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 mm | cop |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 mm | case |
| 25 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 mm | nummod |
| 26 | mm | mm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 long | advcl |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 mm | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | the Goliath frog of West Africa | 32 cm obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | infinitive | the Goliath frog of West Africa not said here | 3 kg | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the smallest frogs | 8 mm | long property | tree rules |
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:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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