The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 14

Kissing a frog will not make a prince, and many toads have poison glands behind their eyes; dogs that bite cane toads in Australia can get very ill.

Who acts: Kissing, many toads, dogs · What happens: kiss, not make, have, bite, get · To what, where: frog, prince, poison glands, eyes, cane toads, Australia

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 (Kissing, many toads, dogs), 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	Kissing	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 make	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 frog	det
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kissing	obj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 toads	amod
12	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	conj
14	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 glands	compound
15	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 glands	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 get	punct
20	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 get	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 bite	nsubj
22	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dogs	acl:relcl
23	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 toads	compound
24	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bite	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 Australia	case
26	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bite	obl
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 get	aux
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	parataxis
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 ill	advmod
30	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 get	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kiss	gerund		a frog			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Co-Agent
2	not make	future	Kissing	a prince			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=Product
3	have	present	many toads	poison glands	frogs's eyes		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient
4	bite	present	dogs	cane toads	Australia		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toad=Patient in australia=Location
5	get	can	dogs			ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:14.

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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