The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 6

Frogs breathe and take in water partly through their thin, moist skin, so tanks are kept damp, and gloves protect their skin from the oils and soap on our hands.

Who acts: Frogs, gloves · What happens: breathe, take in, keep, protect · To what, where: water, tanks, skin

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 (Frogs, gloves), 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	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 take	cc
4	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breathe	conj
5	in	in	PART	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
7	partly	partly	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	13 skin	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 skin	nmod:poss
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 skin	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thin	punct
12	moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 skin	amod
13	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 partly	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kept	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 kept	mark
16	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kept	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 kept	aux:pass
18	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 take	advcl
19	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 kept	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 protect	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 protect	cc
22	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protect	nsubj
23	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 breathe	conj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 skin	nmod:poss
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 protect	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 oils	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 oils	det
28	oils	oil	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protect	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 soap	cc
30	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 oils	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 hands	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hands	nmod:poss
33	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 oils	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 breathe	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Frogs			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take in	present	Frogs not said here	water	partly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	keep	present · passive		tanks	damp property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	protect	present	gloves	frogs's skin	from the oils on our hands and soap	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from oil=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:6.

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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