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title: The southern corroboree frog, yellow and black, almost disappeared b… — Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The southern corroboree frog, yellow and black, almost disappeared because of chytrid fungus; zoos breed it in very clean rooms and release eggs and young frogs into the mountains, and it makes its own poison, unlike poison dart frogs, which get theirs from the ants they eat. Who acts: southern corr
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# Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right, sentence 8

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The southern corroboree frog, yellow and black, almost disappeared because of chytrid fungus; zoos breed it in very clean rooms and release eggs and young frogs into the mountains, and it makes its own poison, unlike poison dart frogs, which get theirs from the ants they eat.

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**Who acts:** southern corroboree frog, zoos, fungus, dart frogs · **What happens:** disappear, breed, release, make, get, eat · **To what, where:** fungus, mountains, own poison, zoos, ants

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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 (southern corroboree frog, zoos, fungus, dart frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:8
# text = The southern corroboree frog, yellow and black, almost disappeared because of chytrid fungus; zoos breed it in very clean rooms and release eggs and young frogs into the mountains, and it makes its own poison, unlike poison dart frogs, which get theirs from the ants they eat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	corroboree	corroboree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	chytrid	chytrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	breed	breed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	release	release	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
47	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:conj
48	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | past | the southern corroboree frog |  |  |  |  | because chytrid fungus; almost *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **breed** | present | zoos | fungus |  |  |  | clean rooms and eggs and young frogs *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **release** | present | zoos *not said here* |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **make** | present | fungus | fungus's own poison |  |  |  | unlike dart frogs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material poison=Product |
| 5 | **get** | present | dart frogs | zoos *= zoo* |  | the ants |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent their=Theme from ant=Source |
| 6 | **eat** | present | zoos *= zoo* | the ants *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right.lesson:8`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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