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title: The male Darwin's frog of Chile and Argentina keeps tadpoles in his… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics
description: The male Darwin's frog of Chile and Argentina keeps tadpoles in his vocal sac until they hop out as froglets; the gastric-brooding frog of Australia raised its babies in its stomach, but it is now extinct. Who acts: male frog, Frogs, brooding frog, stomach. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the wor
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# Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 16

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The male Darwin's frog of Chile and Argentina keeps tadpoles in his vocal sac until they hop out as froglets; the gastric-brooding frog of Australia raised its babies in its stomach, but it is now extinct.

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**Who acts:** male frog, Frogs, brooding frog, stomach · **What happens:** keep, hop out, brooding, raise, be · **To what, where:** tadpoles, vocal sac, babies, stomach

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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 (male frog, Frogs, brooding frog, stomach), 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:16
# text = The male Darwin's frog of Chile and Argentina keeps tadpoles in his vocal sac until they hop out as froglets; the gastric-brooding frog of Australia raised its babies in its stomach, but it is now extinct.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Chile	Chile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc
9	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sac	sac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	froglets	froglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	gastric	gastric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	brooding	brooding	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
27	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=30:cc
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **keep** | present | Darwin's male frog of Chile and Argentina | tadpoles |  | Argentina's vocal sac |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme in sac=Location |
| 2 | **hop out** | present | Frogs *= frog* |  |  |  |  | as froglets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **brooding** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **raise** | past | the brooding frog of Australia | sac's babies |  | sac's stomach |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in stomach=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | stomach |  |  |  | now | extinct *property* | tree rules |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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.

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