The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 2
A pink axolotl smiles from its tank with feathery gills like a baby that never grew up, and a sign warns that a fungus is killing frogs all over the world, so zoos keep rescue groups safe like a Noah's Ark.
Who acts: pink axolotl, baby, sign, fungus, zoos · What happens: smile, not grow up, warn, kill, keep · To what, where: tank, frogs, world, rescue groups · 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 (pink axolotl, baby, sign, fungus), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 axolotl | det |
| 2 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 axolotl | amod |
| 3 | axolotl | axolotl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smiles | nsubj |
| 4 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tank | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tank | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smiles | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gills | case |
| 9 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gills | amod |
| 10 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 smiles | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 baby | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 baby | det |
| 13 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gills | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 grew | advmod |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 baby | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 grew | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 warns | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 warns | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sign | det |
| 21 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 warns | nsubj |
| 22 | warns | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 smiles | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 killing | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fungus | det |
| 25 | fungus | fungus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killing | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 killing | aux |
| 27 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 warns | ccomp |
| 28 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 killing | obj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 world | advmod |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 killing | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 keep | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 keep | advmod |
| 35 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 keep | nsubj |
| 36 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 killing | conj |
| 37 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 groups | compound |
| 38 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 keep | obj |
| 39 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 keep | xcomp |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 Ark | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Noah | det |
| 42 | Noah | Noah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Ark | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 Noah | case |
| 44 | Ark | Ark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 groups | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smiles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | present | a pink axolotl | axolotl's tank | with feathery gills like a baby | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not grow up | past | a baby | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | a sign | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill | present · progressive | a fungus | frogs | the world | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Theme | |||
| 5 | keep | present | zoos | rescue groups | like a Noah's Ark; safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
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:2.
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 ×4, 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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