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title: Many frog fathers are surprisingly good parents: glass frog fathers… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many frog fathers are surprisingly good parents: glass frog fathers guard eggs on leaves, and the Darwin's frog father keeps his tadpoles in his throat until they hop out as tiny froglets. Who acts: Many frog fathers, glass frog fathers, frog father, fathers. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs of the w
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# Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, flying frogs and the goliath frog, sentence 5

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Many frog fathers are surprisingly good parents: glass frog fathers guard eggs on leaves, and the Darwin's frog father keeps his tadpoles in his throat until they hop out as tiny froglets.

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**Who acts:** Many frog fathers, glass frog fathers, frog father, fathers · **What happens:** be, guard, keep, hop out · **To what, where:** good parents, eggs, leaves, tadpoles, throat

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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 (Many frog fathers, glass frog fathers, frog father, fathers), 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:5
# text = Many frog fathers are surprisingly good parents: glass frog fathers guard eggs on leaves, and the Darwin's frog father keeps his tadpoles in his throat until they hop out as tiny froglets.
# 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	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	surprisingly	surprisingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	glass	glass	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	guard	guard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obl
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hop	hop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	froglets	froglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Many frog fathers | good parents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **guard** | present | glass frog fathers | eggs |  | leaves |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **keep** | present | the Darwin's frog father | Most's tadpoles |  | Most's throat |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tadpole=Theme in throat=Location |
| 4 | **hop out** | present | fathers *= father* |  |  |  |  | as tiny froglets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:308-frogs-of-the-world-tree-frogs-glass-frogs-flying-frogs-and-the-goliath-frog.lesson:5`.

**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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