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title: Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in am… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics
description: Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in amazing shapes: frogs that stick to glass, frogs you can see through, frogs that glide between trees, a frog as big as a house cat and frogs small enough to sit on your fingernail. Who acts: Frogs, you. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs
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# Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 0

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Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in amazing shapes: frogs that stick to glass, frogs you can see through, frogs that glide between trees, a frog as big as a house cat and frogs small enough to sit on your fingernail.

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**Who acts:** Frogs, you · **What happens:** live, come, stick, see through, glide, sit · **To what, where:** continent, amazing shapes, frogs, trees, fingernail

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog» 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 (Frogs, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog.lesson:0
# text = Frogs live on every continent except Antarctica, and they come in amazing shapes: frogs that stick to glass, frogs you can see through, frogs that glide between trees, a frog as big as a house cat and frogs small enough to sit on your fingernail.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog.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	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	through	through	ADV	RB	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	glide	glide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	_
44	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:acl
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **live** | present | Frogs |  |  | every continent except Antarctica |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location |
| 2 | **come** | present | Frogs *= frog* |  |  | amazing shapes and frogs |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location |
| 3 | **stick** | present | frogs and frogs |  |  |  |  | to glass | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to glass=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **see through** | can | you | frogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frog=Stimulus |
| 5 | **glide** | present | frogs |  |  | trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory |
| 6 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Frogs *not said here* |  |  | your fingernail |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fingernail=Location |

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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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