Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 15
Because their skin is thin, frogs are easily harmed by polluted water.
Who acts: skin, polluted water · What happens: be, harm, pollute · To what, where: frogs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» of the world 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 (skin, polluted water), 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 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 thin | mark |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thin | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thin | cop |
| 5 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 harmed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thin | punct |
| 7 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 harmed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harmed | aux:pass |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 harmed | advmod |
| 10 | harmed | harm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | polluted | pollute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 harmed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 harmed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Frogs's skin | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | harm | present · passive | polluted water | frogs | easily property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | pollute | participle | tree rules |
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:world:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:15.
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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