--- title: The horned frog has a mouth nearly as wide as its body, grabs anythi… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: The horned frog has a mouth nearly as wide as its body, grabs anything that fits, even mice, and is nicknamed the Pac-Man frog. Who acts: horned frog. A sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's primary sc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/) / 13 # Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 13 The horned frog has a mouth nearly as wide as its body, grabs anything that fits, even mice, and is nicknamed the Pac-Man frog. **Who acts:** horned frog · **What happens:** have, grab, fit, nickname · **To what, where:** mouth, anything, Man frog This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (horned frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:13 # text = The horned frog has a mouth nearly as wide as its body, grabs anything that fits, even mice, and is nicknamed the Pac-Man frog. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 horned horned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:xcomp 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 nicknamed nickname VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 Pac pac PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 30 . . 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 | **have** | present | the horned frog | a mouth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | | 2 | **grab** | present | the horned frog *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 3 | **fit** | present | | | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **nickname** | present · passive | the horned frog *not said here* | the Man frog | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» | 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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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