--- title: Some poison dart frogs carry each tadpole on their back up to a litt… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: Some poison dart frogs carry each tadpole on their back up to a little pool of water in a bromeliad plant, where there are no fish to eat it. Who acts: dart frogs, fish. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dart frogs, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:8 # text = Some poison dart frogs carry each tadpole on their back up to a little pool of water in a bromeliad plant, where there are no fish to eat it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 156-the-amazon-canopy.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): R5-strong ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 dart dart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 tadpole tadpole NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 11 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bromeliad bromeliad NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | some dart frogs | each tadpole | | frogs's back | | to a little pool of water in a bromeliad plant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme to pool=Destination | | 2 | **does** | present | no fish | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | no fish *not said here* | tadpole | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](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:156-the-amazon-canopy.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/7/) - next →: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/)