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title: The olm is a blind, pink cave salamander from Slovenia and Croatia t… — Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworm… · tree and pragmatics
description: The olm is a blind, pink cave salamander from Slovenia and Croatia that lives in water, can go years without food and may live about a hundred years. Who acts: olm, blind pink cave salamander. A sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» of the biolo
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# Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave, sentence 7

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The olm is a blind, pink cave salamander from Slovenia and Croatia that lives in water, can go years without food and may live about a hundred years.

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**Who acts:** olm, blind pink cave salamander · **What happens:** be, live, go · **To what, where:** blind pink cave salamander, Slovenia, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 (olm, blind pink cave salamander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:7
# text = The olm is a blind, pink cave salamander from Slovenia and Croatia that lives in water, can go years without food and may live about a hundred years.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	olm	olm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	salamander	salamander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Slovenia	Slovenia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Croatia	Croatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20: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 | **is a** | present | the olm | a blind pink cave salamander |  | Slovenia and Croatia |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a blind pink cave salamander |  |  | water |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 3 | **go** | can | a blind pink cave salamander *not said here* |  |  |  | year | without food | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | may | a blind pink cave salamander *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.lesson:7`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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