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title: Its round toe pads are covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime be… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics
description: Its round toe pads are covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre on a road. 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 with its dependency tree and th
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# Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 2

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Its round toe pads are covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre on a road.

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**What happens:** cover, grip · **To what, where:** round toe pads

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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: 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:2
# text = Its round toe pads are covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre on a road.
# 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 ×1
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	toe	toe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pads	pad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	sided	sided	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	gripping	grip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **cover** | present · passive |  | window's round toe pads |  |  |  | in tiny sided cells with slime between cells | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in cell=Theme |
| 2 | **grip** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a wet tyre on a road | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 ×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/).

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