The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue, sentence 9

Axolotls are salamanders that keep their feathery gills and live in water all their lives; they come from lakes near Mexico City and are almost gone in the wild, though millions live in labs and homes.

Who acts: Axolotls, salamanders, frogs, millions · What happens: be, keep, live, come · To what, where: salamanders, feathery gills, lives, water, lakes, 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 (Axolotls, salamanders, frogs, millions), 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	Axolotls	axolotl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 salamanders	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 salamanders	cop
3	salamanders	salamander	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 salamanders	acl:relcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gills	nmod:poss
7	feathery	feathery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gills	amod
8	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 live	cc
10	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 live	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 lives	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lives	nmod:poss
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	obl:unmarked
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	conj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 lakes	case
20	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	obl
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 City	case
22	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 City	compound
23	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lakes	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gone	cc
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	cop
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 gone	advmod
27	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 wild	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wild	det
30	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 live	punct
32	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 live	mark
33	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 live	nsubj
34	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 labs	case
36	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 live	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 homes	cc
38	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 labs	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 salamanders	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	is a	present	Axolotls	salamanders			tree rules
2	keep	present	salamanders	frogs's feathery gills			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Theme
3	live	present	salamanders not said here	frogs's lives	water		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
4	come	present	frogs = frog		lakes near Mexico City		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location
5	is	present	salamanders not said here		the wild	almost, gone property	tree rules
6	live	present	millions		labs and homes		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lab=Location

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:9.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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