The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 4

Wild poison dart frogs have poison in their skin, and their bright colours warn predators; zoo-bred ones are not poisonous because their poison comes from the ants and mites they eat in the wild.

Who acts: Wild dart frogs, bright colours, bred ones, poison, frogs · What happens: have, warn, breed, not be, come, eat · To what, where: poison, skin, predators, ants, wild

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 (Wild dart frogs, bright colours, bred ones, poison), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frogs	amod
2	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dart	compound
3	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frogs	compound
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 skin	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 warn	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 warn	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 colours	nmod:poss
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 colours	amod
14	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 warn	nsubj
15	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
16	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 warn	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 ones	punct
18	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bred	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 zoo	punct
20	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ones	amod
21	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 poisonous	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 poisonous	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 poisonous	advmod
24	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 have	parataxis
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 comes	mark
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 poison	nmod:poss
27	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 comes	nsubj
28	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 poisonous	advcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 ants	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ants	det
31	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 comes	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mites	cc
33	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 ants	conj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	nsubj
35	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ants	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 wild	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 wild	det
38	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eat	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	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	Wild dart frogs	poison	frogs's skin		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	present	frogs's bright colours	predators			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent predator=Recipient
3	breed	participle					tree rules
4	not is	present	bred ones			poisonous property	tree rules
5	come	present	frogs's poison		the ants and mites		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ant=Initial_Location
6	eat	present	frogs = frog	the ants and mites not said here	the wild		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=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:4.

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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