The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 16

Glass frogs have see-through bellies, and in 2022 scientists found that a sleeping glass frog hides most of its red blood in its liver to look almost clear.

Who acts: Glass frogs, scientists, glass frog · What happens: have, find, hide, look · To what, where: see bellies, 2022, most, liver · 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 (Glass frogs, scientists, glass 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	Glass	glass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 frogs	compound
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bellies	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 through	punct
6	through	through	ADP	_	4 see	flat
7	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 scientists	case
11	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 found	obl
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hides	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 frog	det
16	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 glass	compound
17	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 frog	compound
18	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	nsubj
19	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
20	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 hides	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 blood	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 blood	nmod:poss
23	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 blood	amod
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 most	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 liver	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 liver	nmod:poss
27	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hides	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hides	advcl
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 clear	advmod
31	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 look	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Glass frogs	see bellies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belly=Patient
2	find	past	scientists	2022			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hide	present	a glass frog	most of toad's red blood	toad's liver		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent most=Patient in liver=Location
4	look	to-infinitive	a glass frog not said here			clear property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:16.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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