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title: Most do not drink with their mouths but soak water in through their… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most do not drink with their mouths but soak water in through their skin, and when a frog swallows it blinks, pulling its eyes down into its head to help push the food down. Who acts: Most, frog, skin. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliat
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# Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 4

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Most do not drink with their mouths but soak water in through their skin, and when a frog swallows it blinks, pulling its eyes down into its head to help push the food down.

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**Who acts:** Most, frog, skin · **What happens:** not drink, swallow, blink, pull down, help, push down · **To what, where:** eyes, head, food

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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 (Most, frog, skin), 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:4
# text = Most do not drink with their mouths but soak water in through their skin, and when a frog swallows it blinks, pulling its eyes down into its head to help push the food down.
# 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 ×6
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	soak	soak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:compound
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	blinks	blink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **drink** | present · do-support | Most |  |  |  |  | with Frogs's mouths but water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | a frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blink** | present | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pull down** | gerund | skin *not said here* | skin's eyes |  | skin's head |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **push down** | infinitive | skin *not said here* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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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 ×6. **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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