--- title: Poison dart frogs wear bright colours as a warning; wild frogs get t… — The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucan… · tree and pragmatics description: Poison dart frogs wear bright colours as a warning; wild frogs get their poison from the ants and mites they eat, so zoo frogs on other food are not poisonous. Who acts: Poison dart frogs, wild frogs, frogs, zoo frogs. 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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 (Poison dart frogs, wild frogs, frogs, zoo frogs), 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:9 # text = Poison dart frogs wear bright colours as a warning; wild frogs get their poison from the ants and mites they eat, so zoo frogs on other food are not poisonous. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 dart dart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 colours colour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 11 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:acl:relcl 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | present | Poison dart frogs | bright colours | | | | as a warning | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent colour=Source | | 2 | **get** | present | wild frogs | frogs's poison | | the ants and mites | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from ant=Source | | 3 | **eat** | present | frogs *= frog* | the ants and mites *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | zoo frogs on other food | | | | | poisonous *property* | 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](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. 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