--- title: The axolotl is a salamander that keeps its feathery baby gills and s… — Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders · tree and pragmatics description: The axolotl is a salamander that keeps its feathery baby gills and stays in water all its life; wild axolotls live only in a few canals near Mexico City and are critically endangered. Who acts: axolotl, salamander, wild axolotls. 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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 (axolotl, salamander, wild axolotls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:13 # text = The axolotl is a salamander that keeps its feathery baby gills and stays in water all its life; wild axolotls live only in a few canals near Mexico City and are critically endangered. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 axolotl axolotl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 salamander salamander NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feathery feathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 18 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 axolotls axolotl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 canals canal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 near near ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 Mexico Mexico PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 critically critically ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 endangered endangered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the axolotl | a salamander | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | a salamander | axolotl's feathery baby gills | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Theme | | 3 | **stay** | present | a salamander *not said here* | axolotl's life | | water | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | | 4 | **live** | present | wild axolotls | | | a few canals near Mexico City | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canal=Location | | 5 | **is** | present | wild axolotls *not said here* | | | | | critically, endangered *property* | tree rules | 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:032-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders.lesson:13`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/12/) - next →: [Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/)