--- title: A small pond without fish, with gently sloping edges, gives them the… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics description: A small pond without fish, with gently sloping edges, gives them their best chance. Who acts: small pond, fish. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad/) / 5 # Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 5 A small pond without fish, with gently sloping edges, gives them their best chance. **Who acts:** small pond, fish · **What happens:** slope, give, chance · **To what, where:** best chance, fish This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» 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 (small pond, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson:5 # text = A small pond without fish, with gently sloping edges, gives them their best chance. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 without without ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 gently gently ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sloping slope VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 12 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **slope** | gerund | | | | | | gently *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | a small pond without fish with sloping edges | fish's best chance | fish | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient chance=Theme | | 3 | **chance** | | fish | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.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): no change. **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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