--- title: The Malayan leaf frog is brown and flat with pointed folds above its… — The rainforest from below: understorey and fores… · tree and pragmatics description: The Malayan leaf frog is brown and flat with pointed folds above its eyes, so on a floor of dead leaves it looks just like one of them. Who acts: Malayan leaf frog, leaf. 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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 (Malayan leaf frog, leaf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:11 # text = The Malayan leaf frog is brown and flat with pointed folds above its eyes, so on a floor of dead leaves it looks just like one of them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 003-the-rainforest-from-below.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Malayan malayan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 folds fold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 above above ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 just just ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 like like ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Malayan leaf frog | | | | | brown *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the Malayan leaf frog *not said here* | | | | | with pointed folds above snout's eyes | tree rules | | 3 | **point** | participle | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | present | leaf | dead leaves *not said here* | | | | like one of frogs | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme leaf=Attribute | 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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.lesson:11`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/10/) - next →: [The rainforest from below: understorey…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/)