The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 0
In the amphibian room tiny frogs as bright as sweets hop about; in the wild a poison dart frog's colours shout «I taste horrible», and the golden poison frog of Colombia is one of the most poisonous animals on Earth.
Who acts: sweets, tiny frogs, golden poison frog · What happens: hop about, shout, taste, be · To what, where: amphibian room, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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 (sweets, tiny frogs, golden poison frog), 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 room | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 3 | amphibian | amphibian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shout | obl |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 frogs | amod |
| 6 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shout | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 bright | advmod |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 frogs | amod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 hop | mark |
| 10 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hop | nsubj |
| 11 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bright | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 hop | compound:prt |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wild | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wild | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wild | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shout | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 frog | det |
| 18 | poison | poison | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 frog | amod |
| 19 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 frog | compound |
| 20 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 colours | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 frog | case |
| 22 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shout | nsubj |
| 23 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 taste | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 taste | nsubj |
| 26 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 shout | ccomp |
| 27 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 taste | xcomp |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 taste | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 one | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 one | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 frog | det |
| 32 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 frog | amod |
| 33 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 frog | compound |
| 34 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 one | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Colombia | case |
| 36 | Colombia | Colombia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 frog | nmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 one | cop |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 taste | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 animals | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 animals | det |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 poisonous | advmod |
| 42 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 animals | amod |
| 43 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 one | nmod |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 Earth | case |
| 45 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 animals | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop about | present | sweets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | tiny frogs | the amphibian room | in the wild | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | taste in a quote | present | tiny frogs = frog | horrible property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the golden poison frog of Colombia | one | of the poisonous animals on Earth | 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:089-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue.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 ×3. 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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