--- title: Tree frogs have round sticky toe pads covered in tiny six-sided cell… — Frogs of the world: tree frogs, glass frogs, fly… · tree and pragmatics description: Tree frogs have round sticky toe pads covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre; scientists study them to make better tyres and tape. Who acts: Tree frogs, tiny six sided cells, scientists. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree frogs, tiny six sided cells, scientists), 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:6 # text = Tree frogs have round sticky toe pads covered in tiny six-sided cells with slime between them, gripping like a wet tyre; scientists study them to make better tyres and tape. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:advmod 5 sticky sticky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pads pad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 8 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 11 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 sided sided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 slime slime NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 between between ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tyre tyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 study study VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:xcomp 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 32 tyres tyre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 tape tape NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Tree frogs | round sticky toe pads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pad=Patient | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | round sticky toe pads *not said here* | | | | in tiny six sided cells with slime between Frogs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cell=Theme | | 3 | **grip** | gerund | tiny six sided cells with slime between Frogs *not said here* | | | | | like a wet tyre | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **study** | present | scientists | Frogs *= frog* | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | scientists *not said here* | better tyres and tape | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tyre=Product | 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. **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:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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