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title: The golden poison frog of Colombia carries enough poison to kill abo… — Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden poison frog of Colombia carries enough poison to kill about ten people, and some peoples there wiped blowgun darts on its back for hunting, without hurting the frog, which is how the frogs got their name. Who acts: golden poison frog, peoples, frog, frogs. A sentence of the lesson «Defenc
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# Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 6

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The golden poison frog of Colombia carries enough poison to kill about ten people, and some peoples there wiped blowgun darts on its back for hunting, without hurting the frog, which is how the frogs got their name.

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**Who acts:** golden poison frog, peoples, frog, frogs · **What happens:** carry, kill, wipe, hurt, be, name · **To what, where:** enough poison, ten people, blowgun darts, back, frog

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (golden poison frog, peoples, frog, frogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:6
# text = The golden poison frog of Colombia carries enough poison to kill about ten people, and some peoples there wiped blowgun darts on its back for hunting, without hurting the frog, which is how the frogs got their name.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Colombia	Colombia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod
20	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	blowgun	blowgun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **carry** | present | the golden poison frog of Colombia | enough poison |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | the golden poison frog of Colombia *not said here* | ten people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **wipe** | past | some peoples | blowgun darts |  | poison's back |  | for hunting | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dart=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hurt** | gerund | some peoples *not said here* | the frog |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | the frog |  |  |  |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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