The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 12

The Chinese giant salamander is the largest amphibian in the world, up to about 1.8 metres long, and is critically endangered from hunting and changed rivers.

Who acts: Chinese giant salamander · What happens: be, endanger, change · To what, where: largest amphibian, world, hunting, rivers

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 (Chinese giant salamander), 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	4 salamander	det
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 salamander	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 salamander	compound
4	salamander	salamander	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amphibian	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 amphibian	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 amphibian	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 amphibian	amod
8	amphibian	amphibian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 amphibian	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 metres	punct
13	up	up	ADV	_	16 1.8	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 up	fixed
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 1.8	advmod
16	1.8	1.8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 amphibian	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 metres	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 endangered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 endangered	cc
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 endangered	aux:pass
22	critically	critically	ADV	_	23 endangered	advmod
23	endangered	endanger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 amphibian	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 hunting	case
25	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 endangered	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 changed	cc
27	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 hunting	conj
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 changed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 amphibian	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Chinese giant salamander	the largest amphibian	the world	1.8 metres obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	endanger	present · passive	the Chinese giant salamander not said here		hunting	critically property	tree rules
3	change	participle	the Chinese giant salamander not said here	rivers			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

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:12.

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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